Access OCI OKE Kubernetes Dashboard locally through Cloud Shell Proxy and ngrok

This article tells you how to access the Kubernetes Dashboard on top of an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OKE Cluster Instance from a browser — without locally installing kubectl. This trick uses OCI Cloud Shell to run kubectl to proxy to the dashboard application running inside the K8S Cluster and it uses ngrok to create a public channel to the proxy in Cloud Shell. Visualized like this:

OK, this looks complex. However, it is not so bad. Let’s peel some layers off:

Let’s now go over the steps one by one.

After the cluster has been created, a kubeconfig file is generated — as documented in the OCI Console for the OKE Cluster:

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