How to access Kubernetes UI via browser?

You can use kubectl proxy.

Depending if you are using a config file, via command-line run

kubectl proxy

or

kubectl --kubeconfig=kubeconfig proxy

You should get a similar response

Starting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8001

Now open your browser and navigate to

http://127.0.0.1:8001/ui/ (deprecated, see kubernetes/dashboard)
http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/

You need to make sure the ports match up.

This works for me that you can access from network

kubectl proxy --address 0.0.0.0 --accept-hosts '.*'

Quick-n-dirty (and unsecure) way to access the Dashboard:

$ kubectl edit svc/kubernetes-dashboard --namespace=kube-system

This will load the Dashboard config (yaml) into an editor where you can edit it.

Change line type: ClusterIP to type: NodePort.

Get the tcp port:

$ kubectl get svc kubernetes-dashboard -o json --namespace=kube-system

The line with the tcp port will look like:

            "nodePort": 31567

In newer releases of kubernetes you can get the nodeport from get svc:

# This is kubernetes 1.7:donn@host37:~$ sudo kubectl get svc --namespace=kube-systemNAME                   CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)        AGEkubernetes-dashboard   10.3.0.234   <nodes>       80:31567/TCP   2h

Do kubectl describe nodes to get a node IP address.

Browse to:http://NODE_IP:31567

Good for testing. Not good for production due to lack of security.