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Kubernetes Dashboard Configuration Steps :(With NodePort)

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**### Pre-Requisites (Optional ): ** Download the official/recommended K8s dashboard yaml file and modify it. Modified version is included in this repo. If you'd rather do modification yourself , perform following : wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.1.0/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml change the clusterIp to Nodeport as changed in the "kubernetes-dashboard-deployment.yml" file

Steps to deploy the K8s dashboard with NodePort

1. Create the deployment : kubectl apply -f kubernetes-dashboard-deployment.yml

2. Create service account admin role : kubectl apply -f service-account-admin.yml

3. Perform cluster role binding : kubectl apply -f rbac-clusterRoleBinding-admin.yml

4. Ensure K8s deployment and service are up and running : a. kubectl get deployments -n kubernetes-dashboard b. If this is a multi-node cluster then figure out which node the dashboard pods are running on : kubectl get pods --namespace=kubernetes-dashboard -o wide c. Double check that there are no issues in the services and its not in CrashLoopBack state:

5. Get the NodePort Dashboard is exposed on using following : kubectl get services --namespace=kubernetes-dashboard -o wide

6. Get service token and store in a local file using : kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard describe secret $(kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard get secret | grep admin-user | awk '{print $1}')

7. Open up a browser that allows self-signed certificate using webpages ( e.g. Firefox ) and use the node IP:Nodeport combination to access the dashboard . e.g. https://:<node_port> will be https://10.10.0.4:32005

8. In the login window use the token from previous step