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Kubernetes Dashboard - Kubernetes Tutorial
From the course: Kubernetes: Essential Tools
Kubernetes Dashboard
- [Tutor] Having one place to monitor everything that's happening in your Kubernetes cluster can be very beneficial. The Kubernetes dashboard is a web-based user interface for Kubernetes clusters. It enables you to manage Kubernetes clusters and the applications running inside of them. There are several use cases for the Kubernetes dashboard. You can use it to scale pods and nodes, view error reports, see logs and metrics, initiate rolling updates and even create, edit and restart Kubernetes resources. The Kubernetes dashboard isn't available by default. Rather, it is available as a container and has to be manually deployed into the Kubernetes cluster. It was set up this way by the Kubernetes team to ensure that it doesn't consume resources in your Kubernetes cluster if you decided to use a different tool for managing, monitoring and troubleshooting applications or the cluster itself. To deploy the Kubernetes cluster into…