To start the Dashboard, you can run a proxy service that allows traffic on the node where it is running to reach the internal pod where the Dashboard application is running. This is achieved by running the kubectl proxy service:

$ kubectl proxy
Starting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8001

The Dashboard is available on the node where the proxy is running for as long as the proxy runs. To exit the proxy, use Ctrl+C.

You can run this as a systemd service and enable it so that it is always available after subsequent reboots:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now kubectl-proxy

This systemd service requires that the /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf is present to run. If you want to change the port that is used for the proxy service, or you want to add other proxy configuration parameters, you can configure this by editing the systemd drop-in file at /etc/systemd/system/kubectl-proxy.service.d/10-kubectl-proxy.conf. You can get more information about the configuration options available for the kubectl proxy service by running:

$ kubectl proxy ‐‐help