I created a Kubernetes Cluster using kubadm and the private IP of the server so all the nodes could reach it withing the cloudprovider network. I am using 4 nodes in DigitalOcean.

kubctl-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc3-01-master:~# kubectl config view
apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: REDACTED
    server: https://10.132.113.68:6443
  name: kubernetes
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: kubernetes
    user: kubernetes-admin
  name: kubernetes-admin@kubernetes
current-context: kubernetes-admin@kubernetes
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: kubernetes-admin
  user:
    client-certificate-data: REDACTED
    client-key-data: REDACTED

The command I used to initialize the cluster is:

kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16 --apiserver-advertise-address=10.132.113.68 --kubernetes-version stable-1.8

I am trying to connect to this cluster using kubectl from my local computer. The admin.conf file has the private IP:

apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: LS0tLS********S0tLQo=
    server: https://10.132.113.68:6443
  name: kubernetes
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: kubernetes
    user: kubernetes-admin
  name: kubernetes-admin@kubernetes

I have tried setting up the proxy in the master kubectl proxy and making an SSH tunnel to the server:

ssh -L 8001:127.0.0.1:8001 -N -i test.pem root@104.236.XX.209

I can login into the Kubernetes Dashboard from my computer, but can't execute kubectl commands:

$kubectl -s localhost:8001 get nodes
Unable to connect to the server: read tcp 127.0.0.1:62394->127.0.0.1:8001: read: connection reset by peer