The view ClusterRole doesn’t actually have permissions for the Cluster level objects like Nodes and Persistent Volume Claims. So we’ll have to create a new RBAC config.
First, we’ll create a new dashboard-viewonly ClusterRole:
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: dashboard-viewonly
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- configmaps
- endpoints
- persistentvolumeclaims
- pods
- replicationcontrollers
- replicationcontrollers/scale
- serviceaccounts
- services
- nodes
- persistentvolumeclaims
- persistentvolumes
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- bindings
- events
- limitranges
- namespaces/status
- pods/log
- pods/status
- replicationcontrollers/status
- resourcequotas
- resourcequotas/status
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- namespaces
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- apps
resources:
- daemonsets
- deployments
- deployments/scale
- replicasets
- replicasets/scale
- statefulsets
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- autoscaling
resources:
- horizontalpodautoscalers
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- batch
resources:
- cronjobs
- jobs
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- extensions
resources:
- daemonsets
- deployments
- deployments/scale
- ingresses
- networkpolicies
- replicasets
- replicasets/scale
- replicationcontrollers/scale
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- policy
resources:
- poddisruptionbudgets
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- networking.k8s.io
resources:
- networkpolicies
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- storage.k8s.io
resources:
- storageclasses
- volumeattachments
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- rbac.authorization.k8s.io
resources:
- clusterrolebindings
- clusterroles
- roles
- rolebindings
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: kubernetes-dashboard
labels:
k8s-app: kubernetes-dashboard
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: dashboard-viewonly
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: kubernetes-dashboard
namespace: kube-system
Now we’ve configured a readonly dashboard we can safely share with people that dont even have K8S cluster access. This RBAC config does NOT grant access to Secrets, just to be a little safe.
In the Web Browser Login view when prompted to give Token or kubeconfig then just press SKIP to view readonly dashboard.
You might be using new version of k8s after 1.14, check it's apiversion documentation and change them accordingly.
You can also choose to use the --validate=false at the end of kubectl apply to skip validation.