Local Dashboard Access

Launching the Kubernetes Dashboard through the Platform9 SaaS Management plane is a way to securely access your Kubernetes cluster remotely from anywhere. However, since the SaaS Management Plane proxies all requests and data to the remote cluster, the response times from the dashboard to the Cluster can be affected by the internal routing schemes.

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To access the Kubernetes Dashboard directly from the cluster, you need to either be on a VPN or have direct network connectivity to the Kubernetes API server, and possess a valid kubeconfig for the cluster.

Step 1 - Download Kubeconfig

Navigate to the Cluster Details page by clicking on a cluster on the Infrastructure dashboards Clusters tab. On the cluster details dashboard, click the Kubeconfig link that's within the Cluster details card. Then, select either a token, or a username and password and then download the kubeconfig.

Step 2 - Enable Kubernetes Proxy

Kubernetes can proxy requests to services that do not have Ingress, NodePort or ClusterPort configurations. To enable the Kubernetes proxy, open a terminal and run, kubectl proxy.

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kubectl proxy
Starting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8001

The Kubernetes dashboard will be accessible at the following address.

http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/