This is the 3rd part in our $65 Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean series, you can goto Part I to read on how to setup your cluster if you haven't done so yet.
There's also a video tutorial here for those who prefer to watch instead of read.
The kubernetes dashboard is a graphical user interface tool that allows us to manage our cluster, monitor and troubleshoot our app deployments, as well as deploy new applications easily. It isn't installed by default if you installed your cluster manually (on managed services like Google Kubernetes Engine, it is preinstalled and configured for every new cluster).
Installing and setting it up is quite easy as per the docs here
TLDR.
Deploy the dashboard containers to your cluster.
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/master/src/deploy/recommended/kubernetes-dashboard.yamlFor our charts and graphs to show up in our dashboard, we'll need to deploy charting tools to enabled the kubernetes dashboard display them.
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: monitoring-influxdb
namespace: kube-system
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
task: monitoring
k8s-app: influxdb
spec:
containers:
- name: influxdb
image: k8s.gcr.io/heapster-influxdb-amd64:v1.3.3
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /data
name: influxdb-storage
volumes:
- name: influxdb-storage
emptyDir: {}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
labels:
task: monitoring
# For use as a Cluster add-on (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster/addons)
# If you are NOT using this as an addon, you should comment out this line.
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: 'true'
kubernetes.io/name: monitoring-influxdb
name: monitoring-influxdb
namespace: kube-system
spec:
ports:
- port: 8086
targetPort: 8086
selector:
k8s-app: influxdb
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: heapster
namespace: kube-system
---
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
name: heapster
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: system:heapster
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: heapster
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: heapster
namespace: kube-system
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
task: monitoring
k8s-app: heapster
spec:
serviceAccountName: heapster
containers:
- name: heapster
image: k8s.gcr.io/heapster-amd64:v1.4.2
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
command:
- /heapster
- --source=kubernetes:https://kubernetes.default
- --sink=influxdb:http://monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc:8086
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
labels:
task: monitoring
# For use as a Cluster add-on (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster/addons)
# If you are NOT using this as an addon, you should comment out this line.
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: 'true'
kubernetes.io/name: Heapster
name: heapster
namespace: kube-system
spec:
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 8082
selector:
k8s-app: heapster
---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: monitoring-grafana
namespace: kube-system
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
task: monitoring
k8s-app: grafana
spec:
containers:
- name: grafana
image: k8s.gcr.io/heapster-grafana-amd64:v4.4.3
ports:
- containerPort: 3000
protocol: TCP
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /etc/ssl/certs
name: ca-certificates
readOnly: true
- mountPath: /var
name: grafana-storage
env:
- name: INFLUXDB_HOST
value: monitoring-influxdb
- name: GF_SERVER_HTTP_PORT
value: "3000"
# The following env variables are required to make Grafana accessible via
# the kubernetes api-server proxy. On production clusters, we recommend
# removing these env variables, setup auth for grafana, and expose the grafana
# service using a LoadBalancer or a public IP.
- name: GF_AUTH_BASIC_ENABLED
value: "false"
- name: GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED
value: "true"
- name: GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ORG_ROLE
value: Admin
- name: GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL
# If you're only using the API Server proxy, set this value instead:
# value: /api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/monitoring-grafana/proxy
value: /
volumes:
- name: ca-certificates
hostPath:
path: /etc/ssl/certs
- name: grafana-storage
emptyDir: {}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
labels:
# For use as a Cluster add-on (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster/addons)
# If you are NOT using this as an addon, you should comment out this line.
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: 'true'
kubernetes.io/name: monitoring-grafana
name: monitoring-grafana
namespace: kube-system
spec:
# In a production setup, we recommend accessing Grafana through an external Loadbalancer
# or through a public IP.
# type: LoadBalancer
# You could also use NodePort to expose the service at a randomly-generated port
# type: NodePort
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 3000
selector:
k8s-app: grafanaSave this yaml file as heapster-influxdb-grafana.yaml and run the command:
kubectl apply -f ./heapster-influxdb-grafana.yamlCreate your admin user service account that we'll use to access our cluster.
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: admin-user
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: admin-user
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: admin-user
namespace: kube-systemSave this yaml file as k8s-admin-dashboard-user.yaml and run the command:
kubectl apply -f ./k8s-admin-dashboard-user.yamlAt this point our dashboard deployment should already by up, we'll need to get our access token and use that to login to the dashboard.
kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep admin-user | awk '{print $1}')Now copy the token from the token part printed on-screen and paste it into Enter token field on log in screen.
Sip some tea. We are done. :)
Next in our series, we'll install helm & automatic ssl certificates backed by letsencrypt. Stay tuned.
I hope this helps.