Access the Dashboard

Now we can access the Kubernetes Dashboard

  1. In your Cloud9 environment, click Tools / Preview / Preview Running Application
  2. Scroll to the end of the URL and append:
/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/

The Cloud9 Preview browser doesn’t appear to support the token authentication, so once you have the login screen in the cloud9 preview browser tab, press the Pop Out button to open the login screen in a regular browser tab, like below: popout

Open a New Terminal Tab and enter

aws eks get-token --cluster-name eksworkshop-eksctl | jq -r '.status.token'

Copy the output of this command and then click the radio button next to Token then in the text field below paste the output from the last command.

Token page

Then press Sign In.