Accessing Kubernetes Dashboard

To install kubernetes dashboard on master node make sure to install it before worker nodes join k8s cluster.

Obtain login token for service account

SA_NAME="<service-account-name>"
# eg SA_NAME="techiterian-cluster-admin"

to print token

kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep ${SA_NAME} | awk '{print $1}')

Service account along with a token will be printed

techiterian@prd-master1:~/Documents/k8s-rapidoreach-prod$ kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep ${SA_NAME} | awk '{print $1}')
Name:         techiterian-cluster-admin-token-cvmgg
Namespace:    kube-system
Labels:       <none>
Annotations:  kubernetes.io/service-account.name: techiterian-cluster-admin
              kubernetes.io/service-account.uid: e5538ac5-41c1-44aa-9f4e-b06888cc86f0

Type:  kubernetes.io/service-account-token

Data
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namespace:  11 bytes
token:      <token here>
ca.crt:     1066 bytes
techiterian@prd-master1:~/Documents/k8s-rapidoreach-prod$ kubectl proxy
Starting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8001