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A web view of the cluster with the Kubernetes Dashboard

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A web view of the cluster with the Kubernetes Dashboard

- [Instructor] I'm personally a diehard CLI fan, which is why you're currently watching such a fascinating piece of video, and we've done a bunch of command line interaction with our Kubernetes cluster so far. But there are lots of other ways to interact with a Kubernetes cluster, including some GUIs. At the end of the day, Kubernetes is just a piece of server software which has an API, so people can write any number of clients for it. You can even use cURL. By far the most popular client for Kubernetes is kubectl, which is the official command line app, but there's also a built in web dashboard. Rather than set up external access to the dashboard with Ingress and services, I'm going to use a quick Minikube command to get access to it, just to show you it. Now, Ingress' services are absolutely the way you should do this in a production cluster, but this is a really convenient little command we can use to get quick access…

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