Kubernetes Hands-on

Content:

Overview
1. Prepare the environment
2. Deploy ToDo app
3. Deploy MySQL
4. Connect ToDo with MySQL using Environment Variables
5. MySQL with Persistent Volumes
6. Connect ToDo with MySQL using ConfigMap
7. Connect ToDo with MySQL using ConfigMap and Secret
8. Kubernetes Dashboard

Lab 8: Kubernetes Dashboard

So far you only worked with the kubectl CLI in text mode.

There is a graphical tool that comes with some Kubernetes distributions. In Minikube you can start it with the command:

minikube dashboard

It takes a moment to start, then it will open your browser:

Here you can easily:

  1. Select a namespace
  2. Look at deployments
  3. Pods
  4. Services
  5. Config Maps
  6. Secrets

any many other things.

Clean up

If you no longer need your Minikube cluster you can simply delete it with:

minikube delete

The End