I fixed this by following http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/ignite-kubernetes-seems-to-be-missing-the-jackson-annotations-dependency-td25670.html
(Copying a missing JAR) This gets past that error and now I am left with the following but thats probably more environmental... class org.apache.ignite.spi.IgniteSpiException: Failed to retrieve Ignite pods IP addresses. at org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.ipfinder.kubernetes.TcpDiscoveryKubernetesIpFinder.getRegisteredAddresses(TcpDiscoveryKubernetesIpFinder.java:172) at org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.TcpDiscoverySpi.registeredAddresses(TcpDiscoverySpi.java:1900) at org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.TcpDiscoverySpi.resolvedAddresses(TcpDiscoverySpi.java:1848) at org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.ServerImpl.sendJoinRequestMessage(ServerImpl.java:1049) at org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.ServerImpl.joinTopology(ServerImpl.java:910) at org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.ServerImpl.spiStart(ServerImpl.java:391) at org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.TcpDiscoverySpi.spiStart(TcpDiscoverySpi.java:2020) at org.apache.ignite.internal.managers.GridManagerAdapter.startSpi(GridManagerAdapter.java:297) at org.apache.ignite.internal.managers.discovery.GridDiscoveryManager.start(GridDiscoveryManager.java:939) at org.apache.ignite.internal.IgniteKernal.startManager(IgniteKernal.java:1682) at org.apache.ignite.internal.IgniteKernal.start(IgniteKernal.java:1066) at org.apache.ignite.internal.IgnitionEx$IgniteNamedInstance.start0(IgnitionEx.java:2038) at org.apache.ignite.internal.IgnitionEx$IgniteNamedInstance.start(IgnitionEx.java:1730) at org.apache.ignite.internal.IgnitionEx.start0(IgnitionEx.java:1158) at org.apache.ignite.internal.IgnitionEx.start(IgnitionEx.java:656) at org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.platform.PlatformAbstractBootstrap.start(PlatformAbstractBootstrap.java:43) at org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.platform.PlatformIgnition.start(PlatformIgnition.java:75) Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local -- Sent from: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/