问题 Our Kubernetes 1.6 cluster had certificates generated when the cluster was built on April 13th, 2017. On December 13th, 2017, our cluster was upgraded to version 1.8, and new certificates were generated [apparently, an incomplete set of certificates]. On April 13th, 2018, we started seeing this message within our Kubernetes dashboard for api-server: [authentication.go:64] Unable to authenticate the request due to an error: [x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid, x509: certificate