pks-dashboard-access.md

Access Kubenetes Dashboard with Credentails

Kubernetes dashboard comes pre-installed on each PKS cluster. The following instructions are for how create credentials and obtain the access token. If there is an easier way, please let me know.

Install a Cluster Role Binding:

This command only needs to be run once.

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: kubernetes-dashboard
  labels:
    k8s-app: kubernetes-dashboard
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: kubernetes-dashboard
  namespace: kube-system
EOF

Access the Dashboard

1. Display the access token:

name=$(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep kubernetes-dashboard-token | cut -c1-32)
kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $name | grep token

2. Copy the access token to the clipboard.

3. Run kubectl proxy.

4. Access the dashboard at http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/

5. Select token and paste the token you have saved in the clipboard

6. The dashboard can be used now.

7. When finished, Press CTRL-C to stop the proxy.