Docker desktop - kubernetes failed to start

I tried numerous different changes to fix docker desktop kubernetes failing to start. What finally worked for me is...

Clicked the troubleshooting icon (it's a bug icon) and then chose Clean/Purge Data.*

Finally,I found the solution for this.

VPN was causing the issue, I am using my office laptop and after restart, VPN was enabled and logged-in and due to this Kubernetes was not working.

After disabling the VPN, Kubernetes cluster working fine.

Hope that helps others as well.

For me, just "Clean and Purge" wasn't enough. Here is what I did.

1. Log off VPN
2. Go to bug and "Clean and Purge Data"
3. Also choose "Reset to Factory Defaults"
4. Restart Docker Desktop
5. Choose "Enable Kubernetes"

At this point, the "Starting" took a while for Kubernetes to be enabled. Now's it all good.

$ kubectl get namespace
NAME              STATUS   AGE
default           Active   80s
kube-node-lease   Active   82s
kube-public       Active   82s
kube-system       Active   82s

I tried clean/purge data and resetting factory settings but that didn't worked.

I had to reset kubernetes cluster from here.

I had similar problem.

• Install Minikube

I install minikube and I run as following on windows 10. starting of kubectl Then I gave permission for docker.

• Check cluster-info

When I check cluster-info result as following cluster info results

• Try to get pods

When I try to get pods I did not get any error.

As @N-ate mentioned above, after clicking Clean/Purge Data which removes all downloaded images from my computer, now docker and kubernates are running properly.
As you can see in the image below, I only have kubernates images running on docker and it takes most of the allocated memory. I guess the failure of starting kubernates was related to this memory issue.

In my case, the Kubernetes (Docker Desktop on Mac) is not running properly though I can manage Pods, Services, etc., when I opened the Docker Desktop, it says

Kubernetes failed to start (red background)

I managed to fix the issue by resetting Docker Desktop and Prune/cleaning the storage.

Even I had similar problem after updating to Docker desktop(version 4.11.1). After I downgraded the version it works fine.

Troubleshooting steps

check is there any errors by running following command

kubectl get events|grep node

and make sure all pods are in running state.

kubectl get pods --namespace kube-system

In my case, the corporate proxy server caused the Kubernetes startup to fail. Addiing *.docker.internal to the no_proxy hosts solved the issue.

I don't know for others but for some reasons, the above suggested options didn't work for me while fixing K8s on Docker Desktop on Windows. Tried fixing by cleaning the cluster, resetting to default, restarting pc, installing previous versions of Docker Desktop, enabling my pc HiperVisor, and giving it more resource priority, and others but yet still K8s failed to start, even though the Docker starts.

I chanced on Minikube as an alternative tool (without UI) to create my cluster and interacted with it using Kubectl.

And K8s worked for me locally.

I followed this guide - https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/