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Setup the Kubernetes dashboard on Docker for Windows

A useful tool when you are new to Kubernetes is the Kubernetes Dashboard.

Unfortunately the Kubernetes Dashboard is not included out-of-the-box with Docker for Windows however it can be easily setup for your local cluster.

To setup the dashboard use the following command:

kubectl apply -f 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v1.10.1/src/deploy/recommended/kubernetes-dashboard.yaml 
The output should look like this:

secret/kubernetes-dashboard-certs created
serviceaccount/kubernetes-dashboard created
role.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/kubernetes-dashboard-minimal created
rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/kubernetes-dashboard-minimal created
deployment.apps/kubernetes-dashboard created
service/kubernetes-dashboard created

To view the Dashboard in your web browser run:

kubectl proxy

And nagivate to your Kubernetes Dashboard at:

http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/.

The first time you open the dashboard you have to enter an authentication token.

Creating an authorization token

To create an authorization token, we first need a Service Account:

kubectl create serviceaccount admin-user

Now we need a clusterrolebinding to assign the ClusterRole to the created admin-user:

kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole cluster-admin --user admin-user

Check an associated secret:

kubectl get serviceaccounts admin-user -o yaml

As a last step we need to request the secret data:

kubectl describe secret admin-user-token-5s5rv

Now you can copy and past the generated token in the Token field.

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