Development Kubernetes cluster with Kind (3) - Dashboard

Other posts in this series:

1. Kind cluster creation and network configuration
2. Metrics server
3. Dashboard
4. Nginx ingress

The following commands install the Dashboard using the official Helm chart, and get the credentials to access the console using a web browser:

helm repo add kubernetes-dashboard https://kubernetes.github.io/dashboard/
helm repo update
helm show chart kubernetes-dashboard/kubernetes-dashboard
helm install kubernetes-dashboard kubernetes-dashboard/kubernetes-dashboard --wait --namespace kubernetes-dashboard --create-namespace --version ^5.7.0
kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard wait --for=condition=ready --timeout=600s pod --selector=app.kubernetes.io/component=kubernetes-dashboard
cat <<'EOF' | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: dashboard-admin
  namespace: kubernetes-dashboard
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: dashboard-admin
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: dashboard-admin
  namespace: kubernetes-dashboard
EOF

TOKEN=$(kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard create token dashboard-admin)
echo -e "Dashboard: \nURL: http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:https/proxy/#/login \nToken: ${TOKEN}"
kubectl proxy

You can access the Dashboard using the URL and token printed by the previous commands.