Exploring the Kubernetes dashboard

The Kubernetes environment that we built in the VM is very elementary, with just a single master node, Helm, and a Kubernetes dashboard. To get hands-on experience using your Kubernetes environment, we will first launch the dashboard and then explore its various features. Follow these steps:

  1. Open a command-line window in your VM and find the node port of the Kubernetes dashboard service:
$ DASHPORT=$(kubectl -n kube-system get svc dashboard -o jsonpath={.spec.ports[*].nodePort}) ; echo $DASHPORT32296

In this case, the node port is 32296. The node port may be different in your case.

  1. Open the Chrome browser within your VM, visit https://localhost:32296, and replace the node port with the value for your ...

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