I'm running kubernetes cluster in azure environment and I want to access kubernetes service apis from inside a pod container. But I cannot connect to https://kubernetes/ from inside a pod.

kubectl get services
NAME               CLUSTER_IP      EXTERNAL_IP   PORT(S)
kubernetes         10.16.0.1       <none>        443/TCP 

Even trying

curl -v --cacert /var/run/kubernetes/apiserver.crt https://10.16.0.1:443/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods

results in

• Trying 10.16.0.1...
• Connected to 10.16.0.1 (10.16.0.1) port 443 (#0)
• ALPN, offering http/1.1
• Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
• successfully set certificate verify locations:
• CAfile: /var/run/kubernetes/apiserver.crt CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
• TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
• TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
• Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to 10.16.0.1:443
• Closing connection 0 curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to 10.16.0.1:443