Kubernetes

Customize the Dashboard URL¶

The dashboard is configured by utilizing the configuration options of traefikeectl install. If you want to change the address the dashboard is getting served on via an Ingress, you have to set the dashboard.host value in your values.yaml.

In order to change the path, set the dashboard.path volume in your values.yml.

Customize the Dashboard Authentication¶

The basic authentication set for the dashboard can be customized by selecting another secret to take the value out of, from the dashboard.secretName value.

Store the Authentication Secret¶

Use htpasswd to create a file containing the username and the MD5-encoded password

Command

cat auth

Output

myusername:$apr1$78Jyn/1K$ERHKVRPPlzAX8eBtLuvRZ0

Use kubectl to create a secret in the monitoring namespace using the file created by htpasswd.

kubectl create secret generic mysecret --from-file auth --namespace="monitoring"

Disable Authentication¶

You can disable the whole authentication for the dashboard by setting dashboard.insecure to true.

Change the Service Type¶

In order to change the service type for the dashboard, set the dashboard.type value to one of the following

ingress
service-loadbalancer
service-nodeport