workaround for kube-vip and k8s v1.29+

pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go

@@ -951,7 +951,15 @@ func (k *Bootstrapper) UpdateNode(cfg config.ClusterConfig, n config.Node, r cru
 		}
 		// deploy kube-vip for ha cluster
 		if config.HA(cfg) {
-			kubevipCfg, err := kubevip.Configure(cfg)
+			// workaround for kube-vip
+			// only applicable for k8s v1.29+ during primary control-plane node's kubeadm init (ie, first boot)
+			// TODO (prezha): remove when fixed upstream - ref: https://github.com/kube-vip/kube-vip/issues/684#issuecomment-1864855405
+			kv, err := semver.ParseTolerant(cfg.KubernetesConfig.KubernetesVersion)
+			if err != nil {
+				return errors.Wrapf(err, "parsing kubernetes version %q", cfg.KubernetesConfig.KubernetesVersion)
+			}
+			workaround := kv.GTE(semver.Version{Major: 1, Minor: 29}) && config.IsPrimaryControlPlane(n) && len(config.ControlPlanes(cfg)) == 1
+			kubevipCfg, err := kubevip.Configure(cfg, workaround)
 			if err != nil {
 				klog.Errorf("couldn't generate kube-vip config, this might cause issues (will continue): %v", err)
 			} else {

pkg/minikube/cluster/ha/kube-vip/kube-vip.go

@@ -91,21 +91,26 @@ spec:
   hostNetwork: true
   volumes:
   - hostPath:
-      path: /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+      path: "{{ .AdminConf }}"
     name: kubeconfig
 status: {}
 `))
 
 // Configure takes last client ip address in cluster nodes network subnet as vip address and generates kube-vip.yaml file.
-func Configure(cc config.ClusterConfig) ([]byte, error) {
+func Configure(cc config.ClusterConfig, workaround bool) ([]byte, error) {
 	klog.Info("generating kube-vip config ...")
 
 	params := struct {
 		VIP       string
 		Port      int
+		AdminConf string
 	}{
 		VIP:       cc.KubernetesConfig.APIServerHAVIP,
 		Port:      cc.APIServerPort,
+		AdminConf: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf",
+	}
+	if workaround {
+		params.AdminConf = "/etc/kubernetes/super-admin.conf"
 	}
 
 	b := bytes.Buffer{}