Description of problem:

The ansible scripts for bringing up a kubernetes cluster call on an upstream script that creates a 'kube-system' namespace used w/ kubernetes-addons. This script creates the namespace w/ 'kubectl apply'. With the version of kubectl that ships with RHEL, this operation fails with an error like:

# cat /etc/kubernetes/addons/namespace.yaml | /usr/bin/kubectl apply -f -
Error from server: error when retrieving current configuration of:
&{0xc2082dcbe0 0xc208101b20  kube-system STDIN 0xc208640a50 0xc208640780 }
from server for: "STDIN": namespaces "kube-system" not found

Copying over an upstream kubectl, or using the kubectl that ships with Fedora 24 currently (1.2.0-0.15.alpha6.gitf0cd09a.fc24) works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kubernetes-1.2.0-0.9.alpha1.gitb57e8bd.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up kube cluster
2. curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/master/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-addons/namespace.yaml
3. cat namespace.yaml | /usr/bin/kubectl apply -f -

Actual results:

Error from server: error when retrieving current configuration of:
&{0xc2082ccb90 0xc20811ce70  kube-system STDIN 0xc20889e780 0xc20889e4b0 }
from server for: "STDIN": namespaces "kube-system" not found

Expected results:

namespace "kube-system" created

Additional info:

See also: https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/issues/777