Error: reading Kong version: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value

[jaikratsinghtariyal]

Deck Version -- v1.7.0
I am trying to automate changes in konnect using GitOps.
Following steps as mentioned in https://konghq.com/blog/gitops-for-kong-managing-kong-declaratively-with-deck-and-github-actions/

but its failing while doing deck ping with error Error: reading Kong version: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value

I am giving KONG_ADDR as https://konnect.konghq.com/

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And when I am trying to put http://192.168.29.174:8001 as KONG_ADDR the

error is
Error: reading Kong version: making HTTP request: Get "***/": context deadline exceeded

http://192.168.29.174:8001 --> this is the IP of my docker host and I am also running Kong in docker.