Looking at what's built-in and included with Minikube

With Minikube, you can bring up a web-based dashboard for the Kubernetes cluster with a single command:

minikube dashboard

This will open a browser and show you a web interface to the Kubernetes cluster. If you look at the URL address in the browser window, you'll see that it's pointing to the same IP address that was returned from the kubectl cluster-info command earlier, running on port 30000. The dashboard is running inside Kubernetes, and it is not the only thing that is.

Kubernetes is self-hosting, in that supporting pieces for Kubernetes to function such as the dashboard, DNS, and more, are all run within Kubernetes. You can see the state of all these components by asking about the ...

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