k3s: Enable Traefik dashboard

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:37:20 +0000

If you install k3s with the default settings it also installs Traefik as a load balancer. Traefik also offers a dashboard which is very easy to enable. If you go on your k3s machines to the path /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests you can find their traefik.yaml. To enable the Traefik dashboard you have to add dashboard.enabled: “true” to the yaml.

root@k3s-master-1:/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests# cat traefik.yaml
apiVersion: helm.cattle.io/v1
kind: HelmChart
metadata:
  name: traefik
  namespace: kube-system
spec:
  chart: https://%{KUBERNETES_API}%/static/charts/traefik-1.77.1.tgz
  set:
    rbac.enabled: "true"
    ssl.enabled: "true"
    metrics.prometheus.enabled: "true"
    kubernetes.ingressEndpoint.useDefaultPublishedService: "true"
    dashboard.enabled: "true"
root@k3s-master-1:/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests# cat traefik.yaml
apiVersion: helm.cattle.io/v1
kind: HelmChart
metadata:
  name: traefik
  namespace: kube-system
spec:
  chart: https://%{KUBERNETES_API}%/static/charts/traefik-1.77.1.tgz
  set:
    rbac.enabled: "true"
    ssl.enabled: "true"
    metrics.prometheus.enabled: "true"
    kubernetes.ingressEndpoint.useDefaultPublishedService: "true"
    dashboard.enabled: "true"

After a few minutes you will see some extra pods getting started.

Traefik on Wolkwacht

k3s: Enable Traefik dashboard