# Kubernetes API connection unstable

**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-api-connection-unstable/7719
**Category:** General
**Created:** [November 3, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-api-connection-unstable/7719 "2017-11-03T02:53:18Z")
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### Author: ![DBason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@DBason](https://forums.suse.com/u/DBason)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-api-connection-unstable/7719/1 "2017-11-03T02:53:19Z")

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Hi, we’ve been investigating Kubernetes running on Rancher but it seems network connections to the apiserver are very unstable. We see sporadic timeouts from services like helm/tiller and kubectl. In the logs we see a number of connection resets e.g.:

2017/11/03 01:30:45 uninstall: Failed deletion of “redacted”: Delete [https://172.19.0.1:443/api/v1/persistentvolumes/redacted:](https://172.19.0.1:443/api/v1/persistentvolumes/redacted:) read tcp 172.18.176.125:60152-\>172.19.0.1:443: read: connection reset by peer

E1103 02:34:53.839563 5 leaderelection.go:253] error retrieving resource lock nginx-ingress/ingress-controller-leader-nginx: Get [https://172.19.0.1:443/api/v1/namespaces/nginx-ingress/configmaps/ingress-controller-leader-nginx:](https://172.19.0.1:443/api/v1/namespaces/nginx-ingress/configmaps/ingress-controller-leader-nginx:) read tcp 172.18.8.82:39570-\>172.19.0.1:443: read: connection reset by peer

Does anyone have any ideas on troubleshooting this? We’re using the ipsec network plugin.