kind cluster creation fails with WSL2

[AnhQuanTrl]

Actual Behavior

I tried to create a kind cluster inside WSL 2 with Rancher Desktop and get the following error:

Creating cluster "tkb" ...
 ✓ Ensuring node image (kindest/node:v1.28.0) 🖼
 ✓ Preparing nodes 📦 📦 📦 📦
 ✗ Writing configuration 📜
Deleted nodes: ["tkb-control-plane" "tkb-worker2" "tkb-worker" "tkb-worker3"]
ERROR: failed to create cluster: failed to generate kubeadm config content: failed to get kubernetes version from node: file should only be one line, got 0 lines

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Rancher Desktop and WSL2
2. Enable WSL integration in Rancher Desktop.
3. Inside Ubuntu WSL2, install kind.
4. Run kind create cluster --config cluster-config.yml
   Here is my cluster-config.yml:

kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
name: tkb
networking:
  ipFamily: dual
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  image: kindest/node:v1.28.0
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 30001
    hostPort: 8083
    protocol: TCP
- role: worker
  image: kindest/node:v1.28.0
- role: worker
  image: kindest/node:v1.28.0
- role: worker
  image: kindest/node:v1.28.0

Result

I got this error: ERROR: failed to create cluster: failed to generate kubeadm config content: failed to get kubernetes version from node: file should only be one line, got 0 lines

Expected Behavior

kind should be able to create a cluster.

Additional Information

I took a look at kind repository and found a similar issue: kubernetes-sigs/kind#3010. It seems the kind folks redirected the original poster here. I had the exact problem so figures I should post it here first.

Rancher Desktop Version

1.10.0

Rancher Desktop K8s Version

1.28.1

Which container engine are you using?

moby (docker cli)

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System / Build Version

Window 11 Pro 22H2. WSL 2 Ubuntu 22.04.2

What CPU architecture are you using?

x64

Linux only: what package format did you use to install Rancher Desktop?

None

Windows User Only

No response

[gunamata]

I could reproduce the issue on my Windows 10 with the steps given in the issue description.
Just running kind create cluster produces the same error as well.

[jandubois]

This is a duplicate of #5092.

[jandubois]

Sorry, I was mistaken, #5092 is about macOS, where kind fails due to a different reason.