kubectl error: "You must be logged in to the server (the server has asked for the client to provide credentials)"

Question

I'm running the following command and getting an error:

$ kubectl get nodes
error: You must be logged in to the server (the server has asked for the client to provide credentials)

What's going on?

Answer 1

You have to run:

$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials [cluster-name]

Docs here.