I was able to reproduce the issue by using an older version of Kubernetes-plugin running on dedicated EC2 instance and trying to connect to the EKS cluster. Kubernetes Plugin: 1.13.5 EKS: 1.13 ```WARNING: Failed to count the # of live instances on Kubernetes io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClientException: Failure executing: GET at: https://XXXXX.sk1.eu-west-1.eks.amazonaws.com/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/pods?labelSelector=jenkins%3Dslave. Message: pods is forbidden: User "system:anonymous" cannot list resource "pods" in API group "" in the namespace "kube-system". Received status: Status(apiVersion=v1, code=403, details=StatusDetails(causes=[], group=null, kind=pods, name=null, retryAfterSeconds=null, uid=null, additionalProperties={}), kind=Status, message=pods is forbidden: User "system:anonymous" cannot list resource "pods" in API group "" in the namespace "kube-system", metadata=ListMeta(_continue=null, resourceVersion=null, selfLink=null, additionalProperties={}), reason=Forbidden, status=Failure, additionalProperties={}).``` |