google cloud platform – kubectl timeout error when trying to deploy on a private GKE cluster

kubectl version
WARNING: This version information is deprecated and will be replaced with the output from kubectl version –short. Use –output=yaml|json to get the full version.
Client Version: version.Info{Major:”1″, Minor:”24″, GitVersion:”v1.24.3″, GitCommit:”aef86a93758dc3cb2c658dd9657ab4ad4afc21cb”, GitTreeState:”clean”, BuildDate:”2022-07-13T14:30:46Z”, GoVersion:”go1.18.3″, Compiler:”gc”, Platform:”linux/amd64″}
Kustomize Version: v4.5.4
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp 172.16.0.2:443: i/o timeout