I recommend you to check your etc/hosts file to have following lines.

127.0.0.1       docker-for-desktop
127.0.0.1       kubernetes.docker.internal

Because docker is failing to resolve your localhost and it get stucks on that state.

And Are you behind some corporate proxy? If so try to switch your proxy or try to bypass it the first time you start the K8. I had the same problem and This solved my issue actually not the upgrading or downgrading.

Irshad's solution worked for me. In my case, pki dir was in <br>C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Docker

I was facing this today and spent couple of hours trying to fix. First thing is to find out why it keeps hanging in starting. You can find the reason by checking the logs at C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop. There will be some service.txt files, open the recently modified one.

For me the issue was this,

[19:32:58.189][ApiProxy][Error] time="2020-01-20T19:32:58+13:00" msg="Cannot list nodes: Get https://kubernetes.docker.internal:6443/api/v1/nodes: EOF"

Once the issue is known, then we can easily fix it. I have to removed the folder named pki inside C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop (as mentioned in issues/4316) and restarted the docker.

Now it's all good. This might not be the reason for all the hangs at starting, but checking the logs will definitely help out.

Hope this helps!

What worked for me based on info at https://forums.docker.com/t/waiting-for-kubernetes-to-be-up-and-running/47009:

1. Reset Docker to factory settings
2. Quit Docker
3. Set the KUBECONFIG environment variable to %USERPROFILE%\.kube\config
4. Restart Docker and enable Kubernetes (still took a few minutes to start)

For me docker was starting and kubernetes was stuck in

Starting

Irshad's solution worked for me as well by just removing

pki

Folder location for Windows:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Docker\pki

I faced the problem with Docker Desktop 2.4.0 on Windows 10. The log file was in a different location -

C:\Users<user name>\AppData\Local\Docker\log.txt

Log files always tell the real situation. In my case, I had manually edited the

C:\Users<user name>.kube\config yaml file

and had messed up the spaces and tabs. On correcting it, it started smoothly !

My problem was fixed following the next steps:

1. Go to

   C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

2. Right click on hosts file and go to Properties
3. Disable Read-Only Mode
4. Reinstall docker

If you are looking how at least disable Kubernetes and reset button don't help:

1. Click on "Reset Kubernetes Cluster"
2. Restart docker (Kubernetes status on the left corner must be red now)
3. Clear "Enable Kubernetes" checkbox
4. Restart docker again.

Check the log file at

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Docker\log.txt

In my case I found that kubernetes wouldn't reinstall because I had renamed the directory

%USERPROFILE%\.kube

However the environment variable

KUBECONFIG

To fix the issue I deleted the environment variable,
and then reinstalled kubernetes through the docker desktop ui.
This recreated the

%USERPROFILE%\.kube\config

I then restored the other config files and recreated the variable

KUBECONFIG

After looking at some useful solutions, the solution where you need to resolve the domains correctly was the one I focused on. I didn't need to change the

etc/hosts

I changed settings in the Docker Desktop app

Settings > General > Check "Add the *.docker.internal names to the host's /etc/hosts file" checkbox

Went through each answer above and this is the only one that fixed it for me!

It contains some of the stuff above, but it is important to clean up all the files, otherwise, it doesn't get fixed

1 uninstall docker 2 Inside of your windows user folder , delete following

.kube
.docker

3 Delete docker and dockerDesktop in ProgramData

C: \ Users \ user\ AppData \ Local C: \ user\ raffaeler \ AppData \ Roaming

4 Installing latest Docker

5 Then only activate Kubernetes, not the other options.

Keep on watching the following log files to known the progress. For me it took lot of time for kubernetes to come up.

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Docker\log.txt
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Docker\log\vm\kubelet.log
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Docker\log\vm\dockerd.log

For me, the reason of the problem was one more entry in hosts file above the line

127.0.0.1       kubernetes.docker.internal

it was

127.0.0.1       acme.com

this localhost allocation blocks k8s starting

(latest version)

This thing happens to me whenever I update Docker,

the following has helped me

1)I restarted the Docker engine by Turning the Power button on the Bottom left.

2. Clean/purge the Wsl, Hyper V, and windows containers and Reseting the K8s Clusters

Hope this works for you

I've had this issue a couple of times and updating Docker Desktop to its latest version has worked for me.