Running Kubernetes on CoreOS on Google Compute Engine and using persistent disk volume mounting requires a custom compiled kubelet binary. See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/issues/7042 ---- Compiling Kubernetes for Linux on OS X using docker-machine requires telling the build you don't use boot2docker directly: DOCKER_NATIVE=true build/run.sh hack/build-go.sh ---- `port-forward` relies on `socat` which is not available on CoreOS.