# Dashboard WithOut Proxy ## Enable additional Add-Ons We will need to enable a few additional Kubernetes add-ons to get this functionality up and running. ``` microk8s enable ingress # Ingress exposes HTTP and HTTPS routes from outside the cluster to services within the cluster. microk8s enable dashboard # web-based Kubernetes user interface microk8s enable dns # creates DNS records for services and pods microk8s enable storage # provide both long-term and temporary storage to Pods in your cluster. ``` ### Enable Host Access We need to alos enable one more additional add-on `host-access` to enable the access to services running on the host machine via fixed IP address. We can enable to make use of the default address ``` microk8s enable host-access ```
### Edit Kubernetes Dashboard Service We need to edit the kubernetes-dashboard service file which provides dash-board functionality. To to edit this we need to edit dashboard service and change service **type** from **ClusterIP** to **NodePort**. We use the following command to edit the file using vim. ``` kubectl -n kube-system edit service kubernetes-dashboard ``` This should open the contents of the file in vim and it should look something similar file below You need to change `type` to `NodePort`
\# Please edit the object below. Lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored,
\# and an empty file will abort the edit. If an error occurs while saving this file will be
\# reopened with the relevant failures.
\#
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
annotations:
kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: |
{"apiVersion":"v1","kind":"Service","metadata":{"annotations":{},"labels":{"k8s-app":"kubernetes-dashboard"},"name":"kubernetes-dashboard","namespace":"kube-system"},"spec":{"ports":\[{"port":443,"targetPort":8443}\],"selector":{"k8s-app":"kubernetes-dashboard"}}}
creationTimestamp: "2022-03-09T14:10:50Z"
labels:
k8s-app: kubernetes-dashboard
name: kubernetes-dashboard
namespace: kube-system
resourceVersion: "1029725"
selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kubernetes-dashboard
uid: b2608643-a712-4b44-abad-160cf140df49
spec:
clusterIP: 10.152.183.220
clusterIPs:
- 10.152.183.220
externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
internalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
ipFamilies:
- IPv4
ipFamilyPolicy: SingleStack
ports:
- nodePort: 30536
port: 443
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 8443
selector:
k8s-app: kubernetes-dashboard
sessionAffinity: None
type: clusterIP \## Change this to NodePort
status:
loadBalancer: {}
Once you save and exit the file K8s will automatically restart the service. We can then get the Port the service is running by using the following command
kubectl -n kube-system get services
Which should display something similar to the below and which we can see that the Dashboard is available on port `30536` in my case
### Check Port
``` sudo snap install nmap ``` ``` nmap localhost -p 32061 ```
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
metrics-server ClusterIP 10.152.183.108 <none> 443/TCP 7d4h
dashboard-metrics-scraper ClusterIP 10.152.183.170 <none> 8000/TCP 7d4h
kube-dns ClusterIP 10.152.183.10 <none> 53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP 7d4h
kubernetes-dashboard NodePort 10.152.183.220 <none> 443:30536/TCP 7d4h
We can now open our Firefox browser on any workstation on our network and navigate to `https://{server ip}:{port number}` in my case it is `https://192.168.0.35:30536` ### Get the token We need to get the token from the server so we can do so using the following command in the server terminal ``` token=$(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep default-token | cut -d " " -f1) kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $token ``` This should return something similar too
[![](https://garywoodfine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-6-1024x303.png)](https://garywoodfine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-6.png)
Copy the token text and paste it into the login dialog in the browser
[![](https://garywoodfine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-7-1024x371.png)](https://garywoodfine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-7.png)
Then you should be able to login with ease.
[![](https://garywoodfine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-8-1024x774.png)](https://garywoodfine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-8.png)