How to provide Admin privileges to K8S dashboard

There are multiple ways you can access the Dashboard UI; either by using the kubectl command-line interface, or by accessing the Kubernetes master apiserver using your web browser.

You can access Dashboard using the kubectl command-line tool by running the following command:

kubectl proxy
Kubectl will handle authentication with apiserver and make Dashboard available at http://localhost:8001/ui.

The UI can only be accessed from the machine where the command is executed. Now if you need to provide admin access to Web UI(Dashboard)

Step 1) Edit the kubernetes-dashboard and change the type: NodePort

kubectl -n kube-system edit service kubernetes-dashboard


Step 2) Validate if the dashboard service and running.

[root@vn2 plugins]# kubectl -n kube-system get service kubernetes-dashboard
NAME                   TYPE       CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)         AGE
kubernetes-dashboard   NodePort   10.110.146.230   <none>        443:32560/TCP   7d


Step 3) Get the port from step#2 and open the URL in browser  

e.g) https://<Kube-API-server-ip>:32560