Kubernetes-dashboard empty : every resources are forbidden - kubernetes

It seems I have a very common problem but I cannot figure it out.
On a new kubernetes cluster (v1.17) I'm trying to install Kubernetes-dashboard.
For this I followed the official steps, starting by installing the dashboard :
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.0.0-rc5/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml
Then I created the ServiceAccount
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: admin-user
namespace: kubernetes-dashboard
And the ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: admin-user
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: admin-user
namespace: kubernetes-dashboard
Everything is running smoothly and all the objets get created (I can get them and everything looks alright)
After running kubectl proxy the dashboard is accessible at this URL :
http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/
Then I enter the token I got with this command :
kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard describe secret $(kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard get secret | grep admin-user-token | awk '{print $1}')
I can login, but the dashboard is empty. The notifications panel is full of
[OBJECT] is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:kubernetes-dashboard:admin-user" cannot list resource "[OBJECT]" in API group "extensions" in the namespace "default"
Replace [OBJECT] with every kubernetes object and you have a good overview of my notifications panel ;)
The admin-user has obviously not enough rights to access the objects.
Questions
Did I miss something ?
How can I debug this situation ?
Thank you for your help !
Edit: That was an outage from my cloud provider. I don't know what happened nor how they solved it but they did something and everything is working now.

In the end, that was an outage from the cloud provider. I ran into another problem with PVC, they solved it and tadaa the dashboard is working just fine with no modifications.

role binding give this error?
The ClusterRoleBinding "kubernetes-dashboard" is invalid: roleRef: Invalid value: rbac.RoleRef{APIGroup:"rbac.authorization.k8s.io", Kind:"ClusterRole", Name:"cluster-admin"}: cannot change roleRef

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Kubernetes Dashboard Token Expired in One hour. How to create token for long time

We have created kubernetes dashboard using below command.
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.5.0/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml
kubectl patch svc -n kubernetes-dashboard kubernetes-dashboard --type='json' -p '[{"op":"replace","path":"/spec/type","value":"NodePort"}]'
created dashboard-adminuser.yaml file like below.
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: admin-user
namespace: kubernetes-dashboard
Created ClusterRoleBinding.yaml file like below
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: admin-user
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: admin-user
namespace: kubernetes-dashboard
And then run the below command at the end we got a token to login dashboard.
kubectl apply -f dashboard-adminuser.yaml
kubectl apply -f ClusterRoleBinding.yaml
kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard create token admin-user
But the problem is the token which we generated got expired in one hour. We couldn't able to use the same token again, if dashboard logged out.
So can we create a token without expiry or at least minimum 6 months?
What is the command/procedure to create a token for long time use?
And one more thing is that can now we are accessing kubernetes dashboard like below in outside.
https://server_ip_address:PORT_NUMBER
Now we want to open the kubernetes dashboard using our website URL like below and it should login automatically to the dashboard.
https://my-domain-name.com/kubernetes-dashboard/{kubernetes-dashboard-goto-url}
you can set --duration=0s:
--duration=0s:
Requested lifetime of the issued token. The server may return a token with a longer or shorter lifetime.
so this should work
kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard create token admin-user --duration=times
you can check the further option
kubectl create token --help
kubectl-commands--toke
After play around with token, it seems like the maximum expiration is 720h.
kubectl create token default --duration=488h --output yaml
and the output shows
kind: TokenRequest
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
spec:
audiences:
- https://container.googleapis.com/v1/projects/test/clusters/test
boundObjectRef: null
expirationSeconds: **172800**
status:
expirationTimestamp: "2022-08-21T12:37:02Z"
token: eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1N....
So the other option is to go with kubeconfig as the dashboard also accepts config.
dashboard-auth-kubeconfig

Kubernetes: ClusterRole created in the cluster are not visible during rbac checks

I have a problem in my Kubernetes cluster, that suddendly appeared two weeks ago. The ClusterRoles I create are not visible when RBAC for a given ServiceAccount are resolved. Here is a minimal set to reproduce the problem.
Create relevant ClusterRole, ClusterRoleBinding and a ServiceAccount in the default namespace to have the rights to see Endpoints with this SA.
# test.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: test-sa
namespace: default
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: test-cr
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["endpoints"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: test-crb
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: test-cr
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: test-sa
namespace: default
$ kubectl apply -f test.yaml
serviceaccount/test-sa created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/test-cr created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/test-crb created
All objects, in particular the ClusterRole, are visible if requested directly.
$ kubectl get serviceaccount test-sa
NAME SECRETS AGE
test-sa 1 57s
$ kubectl get clusterrolebinding test-crb
NAME AGE
test-crb 115s
$ kubectl get clusterrole test-cr
NAME AGE
test-cr 2m19s
However, when I try to resolve the effective rights for this ServiceAccount, here the error I get back:
$ kubectl auth can-i get endpoints --as=system:serviceaccount:default:test-sa
no - RBAC: clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io "test-cr" not found
The RBAC rules created before the breakage are working properly. For instance, here for the ServiceAccount of my etcd-operator that I deployed with Helm several months ago:
$ kubectl auth can-i get endpoints --as=system:serviceaccount:etcd:etcd-etcd-operator-etcd-operator
yes
The version of Kubernetes in this cluster is the 1.17.0-0.
I am also seeing very slow deployements lately of new Pods, that can take up to 5 mins to start to be deployed after they have been created by a StatefulSet or a Deployment, if this can help.
Do you have any insight of what is going on, or even what I could do about it? Please note that my Kubernetes cluster is managed, so I do not have any control on the underlying system, I just have the cluster-admin privileges as a customer. But it would greatly help anyway if I could give any direction to the administrators.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks a lot for your answers!
It turned out that we will certainly never have the final world about what happen. The cluster provider just restarted the kube-apiserver, and this fixed the issue.
I suppose that something went wrong like caching or other transient failures, that can not be defined as a reproductible error.
To give a little more data for a future reader, the error occured on a Kubernetes cluster managed by OVH, and their specificity is to run the control plane itself as pods deployed in a master Kubernetes cluster on their side.

Kubernetes dashboard error using service account token

I have a Kubernetes cluster with various resources running fine. I am trying to get the Dashboard working but getting the following error when I launch the dashboard and enter the service-account token.
persistentvolumeclaims is forbidden: User
"system:serviceaccount:kube-system:kubernetes-dashboard" cannot list
resource "persistentvolumeclaims" in API group "" in the namespace
"default"
It does not allow the listing of any resources from my cluster (persistent volumes, pods, ingresses etc). My cluster has multiple namespaces.
This is my service-account yaml file:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: k8s-test # replace with your preferred username
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: dashboard-admin # replace with your preferred username
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: dashboard-admin # replace with your preferred username
namespace: kube-system
Any help is appreciated.
FIX: Create a Role Binding for the cluster role.
This should fix the problem:
kubectl delete clusterrole cluster-admin
kubectl delete clusterrolebinding kubernetes-dashboard
kubectl create clusterrolebinding kubernetes-dashboard --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:kubernetes-dashboard
The above command will create a role binding that gives all permissions to all resources.
Run the Proxy:
kubectl proxy
Check the DashBoard: Please check the URL and port provided by kubectl
http://127.0.0.1:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/#!/persistentvolume?namespace=default
More info: Cluster role:
You can check out the 'cluster-admin' role by:
kubectl edit clusterrole cluster-admin
The problem here is that the serviceaccount 'kubernetes-dashboard' does not have 'list' permissions for the resource 'persistentVolumeClaims'.
I would recommend using Web UI (Dashboard) documentation from Kubernetes.
Deploying the Dashboard UI
The Dashboard UI is not deployed by default. To deploy it, run the following command:
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.0.0-beta4/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml
From your yaml I can see that you specified them for namespace kube-system but dashboard is trying to list resources from namespace default, at least that's what is says in your error message.
Also it seems your yaml is also incorrect for ServiceAccount name, as in the file you have k8s-test and error message says it's using kubernetes-dashboard.

Kubernetes dashboard gives "Unauthorized" when using proxy

I'm trying to work with a Kubernetes dashboard on a newly set up AKS cluster with Kubernetes 1.9.9 deployed on Azure.
I run kubectl proxy and open http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kubernetes-dashboard/proxy/#!/overview?namespace=default to look at the dashboard.
I get a message Unauthorized. And almost all functionality is disabled.
When I google this problem most solutions seem to revolve around not going against anything but localhost to reach the dashboard. But I am going against localhost. Isn't kubectl proxy supposed to give me an automatically authorized entry point?
This really depends on what ServiceAccount or User you are using to connect to the kube-apiserver. If you really want to have access without looking at policies in detail (gives access to everything), you can kubectl apply -f something like this:
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
annotations:
rbac.authorization.kubernetes.io/autoupdate: "true"
labels:
kubernetes.io/bootstrapping: rbac-defaults
name: my-cluster-admin
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: User
name: <your-user-from-your-~/.kube/config>
Alternatively:
kubectl create clusterrolebinding my-cluster-admin --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=<your-user-from-your-~/.kube/config>
You can also use a Group or ServiceAccount in place of a User.

Kubernete-dashboard is not deploying

I am trying to install kubernete-dashboard on my cluster.
I am running the below command:-
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/master/src/deploy/recommended/kubernetes-dashboard.yaml
Error:-
Error from server (BadRequest): error when creating "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/master/src/deploy/recommended/kubernetes-dashboard.yaml": RoleBinding in version "v1" cannot be handled as a RoleBinding: no kind "RoleBinding" is registered for version "rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1"
Any suggestion ?
You can try to create a Service account in your cluster and a user administrator:
Use this file...
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: admin-user
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: admin-user
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: admin-user
namespace: kube-system
Create user
Create sample user (if using RBAC - on by default on new installs with kops / kubeadm):
kubectl create -f sample-user.yaml
Get login token:
kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep admin-user
kubectl -n kube-system describe secret admin-user-token-<id displayed by previous command>
Login to dashboard
Apply kubectl proxy
Go to http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/#!/login
Login with user and pass
kubectl config view
Login: admin
Password: the password that is listed in ~/.kube/config (open file in editor and look for "password: ..."
Choose for login token and enter the login token from the previous step
Login with minikube
minikube dashboard --url