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K8s dashboard architecture

K8s dashboard architecture - Kubernetes Tutorial

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K8s dashboard architecture

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- The Kubernetes Dashboard Project's been around for a while. It started out as a way to provide a more friendlier interface for Kubernetes. And it is a graphical interface. It's a user dashboard that can be used to be able to administer the platform, as well as to be able to just get insights in it, and visibility into what's happening within Kubernetes. It's also a tool that is primarily a web-based frontend. It has a lot of different capabilities of being able to manage the Kubernetes cluster. Everything from the ability to be able to launch pods, to deployments, secrets, I mean pretty much all of it can be available via the interface. It also is implemented with Angular. So it's a really snappy frontend, as well as fairly nice looking. Now when it comes to the dashboard backend, the user interface is what people see, but as far as the components that connect up in the back end, this is really what's responsible for communicating with the Kubernetes API server. So it's basically…

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