Setting up the dashboard

Start dashboard

Create dashboard:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/master/src/deploy/recommended/kubernetes-dashboard.yaml

Create user

Create sample user (if using RBAC - on by default on new installs with kops / kubeadm):

kubectl create -f sample-user.yaml

Get login token:

kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep admin-user
kubectl -n kube-system describe secret admin-user-token-<id displayed by previous command>

Login to dashboard

Go to http://api.yourdomain.com:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/#!/login

Login: admin Password: the password that is listed in ~/.kube/config (open file in editor and look for "password: ..."

Choose for login token and enter the login token from the previous step