Access Local Minikube Dashboard Remotely

Assuming you have a working minikube & kubectl set up. If you need help with that, take a look here.

Setup: My minikube was running in a separate desktop. I wanted to access the dashboard on my macbook pro browser.

First start the minikube proxy by running the command

kubectl proxy &

The previous command exposes the dashboard on:

http://localhost:8001

We use ssh port forwarding to forward the port to your machine by:

ssh -R 30000:127.0.0.1:8001 ${your-machine-user}@{your-machine-ip}

Now we can access the Dashboard by hitting this url in your browser:

http://localhost:30000/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/http:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/#!/pod?namespace=default

Remember, the above link will work as long the ssh session we created above is alive.