alexrios / kind-dashboard-setup

YAML for setting up kubernetes dashboard on Kind or Minikube.

Overview

This yaml can be used to install the kubernetes dashboard onto Kind or Minikube.

Prequesite

You have a kubernetes cluster configured and are using the proper context with kubectl.

Process

1. Install kind by running brew install kind.
2. Create cluster by running kind create cluster --config=config.yaml.
3. Check kubernetes config by running kubectl get nodes -o wide. You should see some output like this:
4. Now let's apply the Dashboard. Run kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.0.0-beta8/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml
5. Run kubectl apply -f dashboard-adminuser.yaml
6. Run kubectl apply -f clusterrolebinding.yaml
7. Run kubectl proxy
8. Run kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard describe secret $(kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard get secret | grep admin-user | awk '{print $1}')
9. Copy the token from the output.
10. Go to http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/
11. Select the token option to log in and paste the token you copied into the field.
12. Hit sign in button and boom you're into the dashboard.

Deployment

For fun let's just deploy nginx to our cluster:

1. Run kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/application/deployment.yaml.
2. Run kubectl get pods -o wide. You should see something like this:
3. Now let's expose our nging deployment. Run kubectl expose deployment nginx-deployment --type NodePort.
4. Through port forwarding we can access our application. First run kubectl get svc. You should see this: Now run kubectl port-forward service/nginx-deployment 8000:80. (Assuming nothing else is running on port 8000)
5. In your browser, go to http://localhost:8000. You should see the default nginx page.

Clean up

You can honeslty just run kind delete cluster and it'll delete the default cluster by the name of kind. If you gave your cluster a name just run kind delete cluster --name <name of cluster>.

Enjoy!