How to sign in kubernetes dashboard?

Question

I just upgraded kubeadm and kubelet to v1.8.0. And install the dashboard following the official document.

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Answer 1

TL;DR

To get the token in a single oneliner:

kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | awk '/^deployment-controller-token-/{print $1}') | awk '$1=="token:"{print $2}'

This assumes that your ~/.kube/config is present and valid. And also that kubectl config get-contexts indicates that you are using the correct context (cluster and namespace) for the dashboard you are logging into.

Explanation

I derived this answer from what I learned from @silverfox's answer. That is a very informative write up. Unfortunately it falls short of telling you how to actually put the information into practice. Maybe I've been doing DevOps too long, but I think in shell. It's much more difficult for me to learn or teach in English.

Here is that oneliner with line breaks and indents for readability:

kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $(
  kubectl -n kube-system get secret | \
  awk '/^deployment-controller-token-/{print $1}'
) | \
awk '$1=="token:"{print $2}'

There are 4 distinct commands and they get called in this order:

• Line 2 - This is the first command from @silverfox's Token section.
• Line 3 - Print only the first field of the line beginning with deployment-controller-token- (which is the pod name)
• Line 1 - This is the second command from @silverfox's Token section.
• Line 5 - Print only the second field of the line whose first field is "token:"