Local Dashboard Access
Lunching the Kubernetes Dashboard through the Platform9 SaaS Managment is a secure remote way to access your Kubernetes cluster from anywhere. However, as the SaaS Managment Plane proxies all requests and data to the remote cluster the and response times can be impacted by round trip time from the SaaS Management Plane to the Cluster.
To access the the Kubernetes Dashboard directly from the cluster you first need to be either on a VPN or have network connectivity to the Kubernetes API server and a valid kubeconfig for the cluster.
Step 1 - Download Kubeconfig
Navigate to the Cluster Details page by clicking on a cluster on the Infrastructure dashboards Clusters tab.
On the cluster details dashboard click the Kubeconfig link that's within the Cluster details card.
Select either token or username & password and download the kubeconfig.
Step 2 - Enable Kubernetes Proxy
Kubernetes is able to proxy requests to services that do not have Ingress, NodePort or ClusterPort configurations. Open up a terminal and run kubectl proxy this will enable the Kubernetes proxy.
kubectl proxyStarting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8001The Kubernetes dashboard is now accessable at: