Ansible Role: Kubernetes Dashboard

An Ansible role that installs Kubernetes Dashboard and allows you to change default arguments and cluster role binding.

NOTE: This Ansible role intended to be used for home experiments only.

Requirements

Requires Kubernetes and kubectl on the target.

Role variables

Link to the Dashboard manifest:

k8s_dashboard_manifest: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.0.0/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml

Dashboard arguments:

k8s_dashboard_args:
  - --auto-generate-certificates
  - --namespace=kubernetes-dashboard

Dashboard cluster role reference:

k8s_dashboard_cluster_role: kubernetes-dashboard

Playbook example

IMPORTANT: This example is granting admin privileges to Dashboard's service account and allows you to skip authorization. Please read Access control Wiki before using it.

- hosts: all

  vars:
    k8s_dashboard_args:
      - --enable-skip-login
      - --disable-settings-authorizer
      - --auto-generate-certificates
      - --namespace=kubernetes-dashboard

    k8s_dashboard_cluster_role: cluster-admin  

  roles:
    - moikot.k8s_dashboard