What happened (please include outputs or screenshots):
Long-running applications using a kubeconfig with certificate-authority-data encounter errors like:

Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1/pods?fieldSelector=spec.nodeName%3Dip-172-18-66-203.ec2.internal (Caused by SSLError(FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'),))

What you expected to happen:
Client should not expect tempfiles to live indefinitely. It is extremely common for servers to reap tempfiles.

Anything else we need to know?:
If you create a client you can easily see that it is using a temp file that cannot go away for the duration of the client:

>>> import kubernetes.config
>>> kubernetes.config.load_kube_config()
>>> api_client = kubernetes.client.ApiClient()
>>> api_client.rest_client.pool_manager.connection_pool_kw["ca_certs"]
'/tmp/tmpqkht2v2g'

You can reproduce the issue by deleting that temp file and attempting to make a request.

Code is here:

In order for this to work reliably for long-running processes on standard linux systems, the temp file really needs to be created for each request rather than a single time at startup.

That said, on linux systems, a potential hack would be to use /proc/self/fd/<fileno> instead of the temfile path since that would share the lifecycle of the process.

Environment:

• Python version (python --version): 3.6
• Python client version (pip list | grep kubernetes): 21.7.0