Using the dashboard

The Kubernetes dashboard is a web application that runs within your Kubernetes cluster and offers an alternative, more graphical solution, for exploring and monitoring your cluster.

Minikube automatically installs the dashboard and provides a command that will open it in your web browser:

    $ minikube dashboard
The Kubernetes dashboard

The dashboard interface is very easy to use, and you should begin to notice more than a few similarities with the way that kubectl works, since they both allow you to interact with the same underlying API.

The Navigation bar on the left of the screen gives access to screens showing a list ...

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