Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Using the minikube dashboard

The minikube tool comes with a built-in web dashboard. While the kubectl command line client is our primary point of interaction, the dashboard is a great visual tool for exploring Kubernetes.

We can open the dashboard with the following command:

$ minikube dashbaord 

If we use the menu on the left-hand side to select the micro namespace, we can see a summary of our deployment. It should look as follows:

If we click on the logs icon in the adderservice pod line, we can view the log output from the service, which is depicted as follows:

Let's take some time to explore the dashboard, ensuring that the dashboard ...