unable to launch kubectl dashboard on Mac - kubernetes

Question

I have deployed minikube on MacOS using the instructions here https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/
The brew install was ok and the minikube status shows
$ minikube status
host: Running
kubelet: Running
apiserver: Running
kubectl: Correctly Configured: pointing to minikube-vm at 192.168.99.102
I am able to interact with the cluster using kubectl
$kubectl run hello-minikube --image=k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.10 --port=8080
Viewing the pods is also ok
$kubectl get pod
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
hello-minikube-856979d68c-glhsx 1/1 Running 0 18m
But when i try to launch the kubectl dashboard, i get 503 error
$minikube dashboard
Temporary Error: unexpected response code: 503
Temporary Error: unexpected response code: 503
The Dashboard service seems to present
$kubectl -n kube-system get svc -o wide
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE SELECTOR
kube-dns ClusterIP 10.96.0.10 <none> 53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP 3h19m k8s-app=kube-dns
kubernetes-dashboard ClusterIP 10.109.210.119 <none> 80/TCP 119m app=kubernetes-dashboard
below is the kubectl version info
$kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"15", GitVersion:"v1.15.2", GitCommit:"f6278300bebbb750328ac16ee6dd3aa7d3549568", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-08-05T16:57:42Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.7", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"15", GitVersion:"v1.15.2", GitCommit:"f6278300bebbb750328ac16ee6dd3aa7d3549568", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-08-05T09:15:22Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Any pointers on what is missing ? How to get the dashboard working
Thanks
Praveen

Answer 1

Check kubectl cluster-info, you can find more here
kubectl -n kube-system port-forward svc/kubernetes-dashboard 8080:80
Your dashboard should be accessible on http://localhost:8080, keep in mind that the dashboard is deprecated so you can check octant.

Answer 2

Try $ minikube dashboard command. It will open a new tab in your default browser showing the minikube dashbord.

Answer 3

Finally able to solve this issue with instructions from GitHub issues
https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/4352
Basically, with these commands
minikube stop
minikube start --extra-config=apiserver.authorization-mode=RBAC
kubectl create clusterrolebinding add-on-cluster-admin --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:default
minikube dashboard