Developer: yarn run start -> Kubernetes API token

[SohrabTa]

I want to extend some functionality of Kubeapps. For that I completed this tutorial to setup the development environment. During that process I clean installed Kubeapps on a new minikube cluster like this.

When I run yarn run start after setting up telepresence I get the following success message:

Compiled successfully!

You can now view dashboard in the browser.

  Local:            http://localhost:3000
  On Your Network:  http://10.208.81.77:3000

Note that the development build is not optimized.
To create a production build, use yarn build.

webpack compiled successfully
Files successfully emitted, waiting for typecheck results...
Issues checking in progress...
No issues found.

When I open the dashboard by opening http://localhost:3000 in my firefox browser I get prompted to enter the Kubernetes API token as usual. When I run [Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($(kubectl get --namespace default secret kubeapps-operator-token -o jsonpath='{.data.token}'))) inside the powershell it returns a token, but when I paste this token into the Kubeapps login page it is not accepted. It says There was an error connecting to the Kubernetes API. Please check that your token is valid. I made sure that I paste correctly and the token is pasted in its entirety.

Do I have to use another token when redirecting traffic with telepresence or is there a default token that I have to use to enter the Kubeapps dashboard.

[castelblanque]

Hi @SohrabTa , thanks for working with Kubeapps.
If you think what you are going to develop is a feature that the community could enjoy, please don't hesitate to share it with a PR!

The token you use should be a valid one directly against the Kubernetes API server. You can test it with e.g.:

curl $APISERVER/openapi/v2  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --cacert ca-cert.crt

You could also try skipping Telepresence and use the React proxy as you might have seen here.

[SohrabTa]

I was not able to make telepresence work, but the React proxy way worked well after some tinkering! Thanks a lot.

[castelblanque]

Glad to hear that it worked!