<p>I'm using MicroK8S in Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I'm trying to run a simple &quot;hello world&quot; program but I got the error when a pod is created.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>kubelet does not have ClusterDNS IP configured and cannot create Pod using &quot;ClusterFirst&quot; policy. Falling back to &quot;Default&quot; policy</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Here is my <strong>deployment.yaml</strong> file which I'm trying to <code>apply</code>:</p>
<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: grpc-hello
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    targetPort: 9000
    protocol: TCP
    name: http
  selector:
    app: grpc-hello
  type: NodePort
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: grpc-hello
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: grpc-hello
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: grpc-hello
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: esp
        image: gcr.io/endpoints-release/endpoints-runtime:1
        args: [
          &quot;--http2_port=9000&quot;,
          &quot;--backend=grpc://127.0.0.1:50051&quot;,
          &quot;--service=hellogrpc.endpoints.octa-test-123.cloud.goog&quot;,
          &quot;--rollout_strategy=managed&quot;,
        ]
        ports:
          - containerPort: 9000
      - name: python-grpc-hello
        image: gcr.io/octa-test-123/python-grpc-hello:1.0
        ports:
          - containerPort: 50051
</code></pre>
<p>Here is what I got when I try to <code>describe</code> the pod:</p>
<pre><code>Events:
  Type     Reason             Age                From                   Message
  ----     ------             ----               ----                   -------
  Normal   Scheduled          31s                default-scheduler      Successfully assigned default/grpc-hello-66869cf9fb-kpr69 to azeem-ubuntu
  Normal   Started            30s                kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Started container python-grpc-hello
  Normal   Pulled             30s                kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Container image &quot;gcr.io/octa-test-123/python-grpc-hello:1.0&quot; already present on machine
  Normal   Created            30s                kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Created container python-grpc-hello
  Normal   Pulled             12s (x3 over 31s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Container image &quot;gcr.io/endpoints-release/endpoints-runtime:1&quot; already present on machine
  Normal   Created            12s (x3 over 31s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Created container esp
  Normal   Started            12s (x3 over 30s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Started container esp
  Warning  MissingClusterDNS  8s (x10 over 31s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  pod: &quot;grpc-hello-66869cf9fb-kpr69_default(19c5a870-fcf5-415c-bcb6-dedfc11f936c)&quot;. kubelet does not have ClusterDNS IP configured and cannot create Pod using &quot;ClusterFirst&quot; policy. Falling back to &quot;Default&quot; policy.
  Warning  BackOff            8s (x2 over 23s)   kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Back-off restarting failed container
Events:
  Type     Reason             Age                From                   Message
  ----     ------             ----               ----                   -------
  Normal   Scheduled          31s                default-scheduler      Successfully assigned default/grpc-hello-66869cf9fb-kpr69 to azeem-ubuntu
  Normal   Started            30s                kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Started container python-grpc-hello
  Normal   Pulled             30s                kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Container image &quot;gcr.io/octa-test-123/python-grpc-hello:1.0&quot; already present on machine
  Normal   Created            30s                kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Created container python-grpc-hello
  Normal   Pulled             12s (x3 over 31s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Container image &quot;gcr.io/endpoints-release/endpoints-runtime:1&quot; already present on machine
  Normal   Created            12s (x3 over 31s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Created container esp
  Normal   Started            12s (x3 over 30s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Started container esp
  Warning  MissingClusterDNS  8s (x10 over 31s)  kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  pod: &quot;grpc-hello-66869cf9fb-kpr69_default(19c5a870-fcf5-415c-bcb6-dedfc11f936c)&quot;. kubelet does not have ClusterDNS IP configured and cannot create Pod using &quot;ClusterFirst&quot; policy. Falling back to &quot;Default&quot; policy.
  Warning  BackOff            8s (x2 over 23s)   kubelet, azeem-ubuntu  Back-off restarting failed container
</code></pre>
<p>I researched this and I found some answers, but none are working for me. I also create the <code>kube-dns</code> for this but don't know why this still is not working. These kube-dns are running. kube-dns are in <code>kube-system</code> namespace.</p>
<pre><code>NAME                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-dns-6dbd676f7-dfbjq   3/3     Running   0          22m
</code></pre>
<p>And here is what I apply to create the <code>kube-dns</code>:</p>
<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: kube-dns
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    k8s-app: kube-dns
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: &quot;true&quot;
    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
    kubernetes.io/name: &quot;KubeDNS&quot;
spec:
  selector:
    k8s-app: kube-dns
  clusterIP: 10.152.183.10
  ports:
  - name: dns
    port: 53
    protocol: UDP
  - name: dns-tcp
    port: 53
    protocol: TCP
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: kube-dns
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: &quot;true&quot;
    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: kube-dns
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: EnsureExists
data:
  upstreamNameservers: |-
    [&quot;8.8.8.8&quot;, &quot;8.8.4.4&quot;]
# Why set upstream ns: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/2027
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: kube-dns
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    k8s-app: kube-dns
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: &quot;true&quot;
    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
spec:
  # replicas: not specified here:
  # 1. In order to make Addon Manager do not reconcile this replicas parameter.
  # 2. Default is 1.
  # 3. Will be tuned in real time if DNS horizontal auto-scaling is turned on.
  strategy:
    rollingUpdate:
      maxSurge: 10%
      maxUnavailable: 0
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      k8s-app: kube-dns
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: kube-dns
      annotations:
        scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod: ''
    spec:
      tolerations:
      - key: &quot;CriticalAddonsOnly&quot;
        operator: &quot;Exists&quot;
      volumes:
      - name: kube-dns-config
        configMap:
          name: kube-dns
          optional: true
      containers:
      - name: kubedns
        image: gcr.io/google-containers/k8s-dns-kube-dns:1.15.8
        resources:
          # TODO: Set memory limits when we've profiled the container for large
          # clusters, then set request = limit to keep this container in
          # guaranteed class. Currently, this container falls into the
          # &quot;burstable&quot; category so the kubelet doesn't backoff from restarting it.
          limits:
            memory: 170Mi
          requests:
            cpu: 100m
            memory: 70Mi
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /healthcheck/kubedns
            port: 10054
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 60
          timeoutSeconds: 5
          successThreshold: 1
          failureThreshold: 5
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /readiness
            port: 8081
            scheme: HTTP
          # we poll on pod startup for the Kubernetes master service and
          # only setup the /readiness HTTP server once that's available.
          initialDelaySeconds: 3
          timeoutSeconds: 5
        args:
        - --domain=cluster.local.
        - --dns-port=10053
        - --config-dir=/kube-dns-config
        - --v=2
        env:
        - name: PROMETHEUS_PORT
          value: &quot;10055&quot;
        ports:
        - containerPort: 10053
          name: dns-local
          protocol: UDP
        - containerPort: 10053
          name: dns-tcp-local
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 10055
          name: metrics
          protocol: TCP
        volumeMounts:
        - name: kube-dns-config
          mountPath: /kube-dns-config
      - name: dnsmasq
        image: gcr.io/google-containers/k8s-dns-dnsmasq-nanny:1.15.8
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /healthcheck/dnsmasq
            port: 10054
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 60
          timeoutSeconds: 5
          successThreshold: 1
          failureThreshold: 5
        args:
        - -v=2
        - -logtostderr
        - -configDir=/etc/k8s/dns/dnsmasq-nanny
        - -restartDnsmasq=true
        - --
        - -k
        - --cache-size=1000
        - --no-negcache
        - --log-facility=-
        - --server=/cluster.local/127.0.0.1#10053
        - --server=/in-addr.arpa/127.0.0.1#10053
        - --server=/ip6.arpa/127.0.0.1#10053
        ports:
        - containerPort: 53
          name: dns
          protocol: UDP
        - containerPort: 53
          name: dns-tcp
          protocol: TCP
        # see: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/29055 for details
        resources:
          requests:
            cpu: 150m
            memory: 20Mi
        volumeMounts:
        - name: kube-dns-config
          mountPath: /etc/k8s/dns/dnsmasq-nanny
      - name: sidecar
        image: gcr.io/google-containers/k8s-dns-sidecar:1.15.8
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /metrics
            port: 10054
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 60
          timeoutSeconds: 5
          successThreshold: 1
          failureThreshold: 5
        args:
        - --v=2
        - --logtostderr
        - --probe=kubedns,127.0.0.1:10053,kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local,5,SRV
        - --probe=dnsmasq,127.0.0.1:53,kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local,5,SRV
        ports:
        - containerPort: 10054
          name: metrics
          protocol: TCP
        resources:
          requests:
            memory: 20Mi
            cpu: 10m
      dnsPolicy: Default  # Don't use cluster DNS.
      serviceAccountName: kube-dns
</code></pre>
<p>What am I missing?</p>

Azeem Haider
<p>You have not specified how you deployed kube dns but with microk8s it's recommended to use core dns.</p>
<p>You should not deploy kube dns or core dns on your own; rather you need to enable dns using this command <code>microk8s enable dns</code> which would deploy core DNS and set up DNS.</p>
