Using the Kubernetes dashboard

Kubernetes dashboard is a general purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters. It allows users to manage applications running in the cluster and troubleshoot them, as well as manage the cluster itself. We can also edit the manifest files of deployment, services, or Pods. The changes will be picked up immediately by Kubernetes, so it gives us the capability to scale down or up the deployment, for example.

If you open the dashboard with the minikube dashboard command, it will open your default browser with a dashboard URL. From here, you can list all the resources on the cluster, such as deployments, services, Pods, and so on. Our dashboard is no longer empty, as you can see in the following screenshot; we have ...

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