How to deploy a Dashboard to your Kubernetes cluster

This article guides you through the steps necessary to deploy Kubernetes Dashboard to your cluster, give it admin access and make it accessible from any host.

Disclaimer: changes you are going to make may pose a serious security threat. The dashboard will have admin access to your cluster and will be available over the Internet without authorization. Be sure you understand what you are doing.

1. Get the deployment configuration

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.0.0-rc3/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml

2. Enable Skip button

Make sure args section of the Deployment configuration contains --enable-skip-login. So the section looks as follows:

args:
  - --enable-skip-login
  - --auto-generate-certificates
  - --namespace=kubernetes-dashboard

3. Grant custer-admin role to kubernetes-dashboard

Find kind: ClusterRoleBinding section and change roleRef#name to cluster-admin , so the section should look as follows:

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
 name: kubernetes-dashboard
roleRef:
 apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
 kind: ClusterRole
 name: cluster-admin
subjects:
 — kind: ServiceAccount
 name: kubernetes-dashboard
 namespace: kubernetes-dashboard

4. Deploy the dashboard

kubectl apply -f recommended.yaml

5. Make the dashboard available from all hosts

kubectl proxy — address 0.0.0.0 — accept-hosts ‘.*’

Access the dashboard at:

http://<YOUR_IP>:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/.