title: How to restart unresponsive kubernetes master in GKE
body: <p>The kubernetes master in one of my GKE clusters became unresponsive last night following the infrastructure issue in us-central1-a.  </p>
  
  <p>Whenever I run "kubectl get pods" in the default namespace I get the following error message:
  <strong>Error from server: an error on the server has prevented the request from succeeding</strong></p>
  
  <p>If I run "kubectl get pods --namespace=kube-system",  I only see the kube-proxy and the fluentd-logging daemon.</p>
  
  <p>I have trying scaling the cluster down to 0 and then scaling it back up. I have also tried downgrading and upgrading the cluster but that seems to apply only to the nodes (not the master).  Is there any GKE/K8S API command to issue a restart to the kubernetes master?</p>