I am trying to use the python API for kubernetes and I can't seem to be able to execute the request. I think the pipeline is not clear to me.

I am following the steps here: Kubernetes python client: authentication issue

On the remote server:

• I setup my service account and generated the secret as described in the link
• I added the token to my code

I am getting connection refused.

• Am I supposed to import any information from the cluster into the local client?
• Is the port okay?

from kubernetes import client, config
def main():
    configuration = client.Configuration() 

    configuration.host = "http://my_ip:8080"
    configuration.api_key_prefix['authorization'] = "Bearer"
    configuration.api_key['authorization'] = "my_token"
    v1 = client.CoreV1Api()
    print("Listing pods with their IPs:")
    ret = v1.list_pod_for_all_namespaces(watch=False)
    for i in ret.items:
        print("%s\t%s\t%s" %
            (i.status.pod_ip, i.metadata.namespace, i.metadata.name))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Output:

   raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='xx.xx.xx.xx', port=8080): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1/pods?watch=False (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x1118e5668>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 61] Connection refused'

Current local client kubectl config view:

apiVersion: v1
clusters: []
contexts: []
current-context: ""
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users: []