Dashboard Access

You can access a Kubernetes dashboard for controlling your cluster through a GUI at theURL:

https://container-platform-k8s.cloud.garr.it

To log in to the dashboard you need to authenticate. Follow this procedure:

1. List your secrets:

   $ kubectl get secrets
   NAME                  TYPE                                  DATA      AGE
   default-token-g98dg   kubernetes.io/service-account-token   3         1d
   

2. Obtain the token for the secret named default-token-xxxx (in this example default-token-g98dg):

   $ kubectl describe secret default-token-g98dg
   Name:         default-token-g98dg
   Namespace:    USER_NAME
   Labels:       <none>
   Annotations:  kubernetes.io/service-account.name=default
                 kubernetes.io/service-account.uid=fcd785ad-8ffd-11e8-8674-74e6e266c8e1
   
   Type:  kubernetes.io/service-account-token
   
   Data
   ====
   ca.crt:     1167 bytes
   namespace:  5 bytes
   token:      AAAABBBBBCCCCCCDDDDD....
   

3. Open the dashboard and select the Token method (see figure).

   

4. Enter the token and press SIGN IN.

5. You will land in the default namespace where you don’t have permissions, so you will get error messages like these:

   

6. Click on default below Namespace on the left panel and enter the namespace that has been assigned to you on registration. You will now be able to see your deployments! (see figure).