A recently introduced change enables the capability to disable the Kubernetes dashboard on an AKS cluster. This is achieved by providing the Kubernetes dashboard as an AKS add-on like the Azure Monitor for containers integration, AKS virtual nodes or the HTTP application routing.
I stumbled over that capability in the Terraform Azure provider documentation for Azure Kubernetes Service.
-> https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/kubernetes_cluster.html#kube_dashboard
Add the following lines to your Terraform main.tf file to disable the Kubernetes dashboard on new or existing AKS clusters.
...
addon_profile {
kube_dashboard {
enabled = false
}
}
...
When you prefer Azure Resource Manager templates or the Azure CLI, here are the examples.
Azure Resource Manager templates:
...
"addonProfiles": {
"kubeDashboard": {
"enabled": false
}
},
...
Azure CLI (AKS preview extension):
az aks disable-addons -a kube-dashboard -g aks -n azst-aks1 --verbose
Whatever tooling you use for disabling the Kubernetes dashboard on AKS, your kube-system namespace should look like this afterwards running kubectl get deployments -l k8s-app=kubernetes-dashboard and kubectl get pods -l k8s-app=kubernetes-dashboard.
> kubectl get deployments -l k8s-app=kubernetes-dashboard NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE kubernetes-dashboard 1/1 1 1 111s > kubectl get pods -l k8s-app=kubernetes-dashboard NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE kubernetes-dashboard-cc4cc9f58-ttntn 1/1 Running 0 119s > kubectl get deployments -l k8s-app=kubernetes-dashboard No resources found in kube-system namespace. > kubectl get pods -l k8s-app=kubernetes-dashboard No resources found in kube-system namespace.