Minikube: How to access Kubernetes API using CURL

[RaeesBhatti]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?: It's a question

Minikube version: v0.10.0

Environment:

• OS: OS X 10.11.6
• VM Driver: xhyve
• Docker version: 1.11.1, build 5604cbe
• Install tools:
• Others:

What happened:
I'm unable to access Kubernetes API via CURL. It says curl: (58) SSL: Can't load the certificate "cert.pem" and its private key: OSStatus -25299

What you expected to happen:
To get response from API server.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
Use address to your Kubernetes API server here
curl https://192.168.64.4:8443/apis --key /Users/$USER/.minikube/certs/ca-key.pem --cert /Users/$USER/.minikube/certs/cert.pem --cacert /Users/$USER/.minikube/certs/ca.pem --cert-type PEM

[RaeesBhatti]

I found out that I was using wrong certificates and the SSL: Can't load the certificate [] and its private key: OSStatus -25299 is a problem specific to CURL in OS X Mavericks+ where CURL accepts certificates of only P12 format.
You have to use certificates in $HOME/.minikube/ directory instead $HOME/.minikube/certs. You also have to convert the certificates into P12 format and then use them.

[perrefe]

Look at this issue https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/283, there @JohnMorales shows a way to convert the certificate in the appropriate format to work in macos.

[erikbgithub]

This guide also seems to be nice to know: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/access-cluster/#without-kubectl-proxy-post-v13x