Accessing kubernetes dashboard gives Error trying to reach service: 'dial tcp 10.44.0.2:8443: connect: connection refused'

Question

I used kubernetes hard way and managed to deploy a cluster successfully with kubernetes 1.18.6

I used vmware and kubernetes 1.18.6. I deployed metric-server and kubernets dashboard

I used this command --> kubectl proxy --address='0.0.0.0' --port=8001 --accept-hosts='^*$' to startup kuberenetes dashboard

Then I used below url to access kubernes dashboard from my master node

http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/

But I'm getting below error in my browser

Error trying to reach service: 'dial tcp 10.44.0.2:8443: connect: connection refused'

But I can access kubernetes dashboard without any issue on my worker nodes using the url https://10.44.0.2:8443/

What am I missing ?

Why I can't access kubernetes dashboard normal way ?

I created another cluster with kubeadm tool and I can access kubernetes dashboard outside of the cluster.

I have weave and coredns configured and I don't see any errors on them. I did a smoke test and its all working properly. I even deployed wordpress and its also working properly.

All of my configurations are in https://github.com/godomainz/kubernetes-the-hard-way.git feature/Feature-1.18.6 branch

Guest OS : Ubuntu 18.04
Cluster environment used : VMWare workstation
Host PC: Windowd 10 Pro(i7 processor,64GB Ram)
Each VM has 15GB RAM with 8 Cores
Kubernetes version used : 1.18.6

Answer 1

Try running the service on a different port

kubectl proxy --address='0.0.0.0' --port=8002 --accept-hosts='.*'

If this does not work then another Quick fix, edit the kubernetes-dashboard yaml file >> selector type is "ClusterIP" to "NodePort" if you are running on localhost.