Azure k8s dashboard does not open - azure

I have k8s cluster on Azure and can not access the dashboard.
To access it I was doing aks browse --resource-group <res_group> --name <cluster_name>
It does not open after accidentally deleted the kube-dashboard pod.
Error:
Couldn't find the Kubernetes dashboard pod.
Did try to enable-disbale dashboard add-on on Azure.
Re-install k8s-dashboard. (Azure did not allow)
Any ideas on how to solve the issue and restart the dashboard?

Did find the following solution that worked for me:
Created another Azure k8s cluster. For each cluster Azure makes a dashboard
deployment.
Copied the yaml files with the command:
kubectl get deployment -n kube-system <kubernetes-dasboard-xxx>
for each "deployment, replicaSet, service and pod related to dashboard"
Recreated them into the old not working cluster.
Upgraded-downgraded the cluster version to re-deploy the objects.

Depends on your k8s version, AKS doesn't enable dashboard while creating a new cluster. You can find details in below link.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-dashboard
And I suggest you, can directly install dashboard from kubernetes dashboard page, it is installing dashboard another namespace(it it better actually) and you can create and RBAC account to see all resources as an admin privileges.
https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard
https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/blob/master/docs/user/access-control/creating-sample-user.md
And also you can use --enable-addons
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-dashboard

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Kubernetes pods using invalid Azure Active Directory access tokens

When deploying new jobs and services to Azure Kubernetes Service cluster, the pods fail to request valid AAD access tokens with all permissions available. If new permissions were added on the same day, before or after a deployment, the tokens still do not pick them up. This issue has been observed with permissions granted to Active Directory Groups over Key Vaults, Storage Accounts, and SQL databases scopes so far.
Example: I have a .NET 5.0 C# API running on 3 pods with antiaffinity rules located each on a separate node. The application reads information from a SQL database. I made a release and added the database permissions afterwards. Things I have tried so far to make the application reset the access tokens:
kubectl delete pods --all -n <namespace> which essentially created 3 new pods again failing due to insufficient permissions.
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml to deploy a new version of the image running in the containers, again all 3 pods kept failing.
kubectl delete -f deployment.yaml followed by kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml to erase the old kubernetes object and create a new one. This resolved the issue on 2/3 pods, however, the third one kept failing due to insufficient permissions.
kubectl delete namespace <namespace> to erase the entire namespace with all configuration available and recreated it again. Surprisingly, again 2/3 pods were running with the correct permissions and the last one did not.
The commands were ran more than one hour after the permissions were added to the group. The database tokens are active for 24 hours and when I have seen this issue occur with cronjobs, I had to wait 1 day for the task to execute correctly (none of the above steps worked in a cronjob scenario). The validity of the tokens kept changing which implied that the pods are requesting new access tokens, again excluding the most recently added permissions. The only solution I have found that works 100% of the time is destroy the cluster and recreate it which is not viable in any production scenario.
The failing pod from my example was the one always running on node 00 which made me think there may be an extra caching layer on the first initial node of the cluster. However, I still do not understand why the other 2 pods were running with no issue and also what is the way to restart my pods or refresh the access token to minimise the wait time until resolution.
Kubernetes version: 1.21.7.
The cluster has no AKS-managed AAD or pod-identity enabled. All RBAC is granted to the cluster MSI via AD groups.
Please check if below can be worked around in your case.
To access the Kubernetes resources, you must have access to the AKS cluster, the Kubernetes API, and the Kubernetes objects. Ensure that you're either a cluster administrator or a user with the appropriate permissions to access the AKS cluster
Things you need to do, if you haven't already:
Enable Azure RBAC on your existing AKS cluster, using:
az aks update -g myResourceGroup -n myAKSCluster --enable-azure-rbac
Create Role that allows read access to all other Pods and Services:
Add the necessary roles (Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster User Role , Azure Kubernetes Service RBAC Reader/Writer/Admin/Cluster Admin) to the user. See ( Microsoft Docs).
Also check Troubleshooting
Also check if you need to have "Virtual Machine Contributor" and storage account contributer for your resource group containing pods and see if namespace is mentioned in that pod , if you have missed . Stack Overflow refernce.Also do check if firewall is restricting the access to the network in that pod.
Resetting the kubeconfig context using the az aks get-credentials command may clear the previously cached authentication token for some xyz user:
az aks get-credentials --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --overwrite-existing >Reference
Please do check Other References below:
kubernetes - Permissions error - Stack Overflow
create-role-assignments-for-users-to-access-cluster | microsoft docs
user can't access to AKS cluster with RBAC enabled (github.com)
kubernetes - Stack Overflow

Changing --network-plugin in Azure Kubernetes Service for existing cluster

I'm trying to implement Azure Key Vault such that API keys, credentials and other Kubernetes secrets are read into production and staging environments. Ultimately, I'd like to try to expand that to local development environments so devs don't have to mess with it at all. It is just read in when they start their cluster.
Anyway, I'm following this to enable Pod Identities:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-azure-ad-pod-identity
When I get to this step, I'm modifying the:
az aks create -g myResourceGroup -n myAKSCluster --enable-managed-identity --enable-pod-identity --network-plugin azure
To the following because I'm trying to change an existing cluster:
az aks update -g myResourceGroup -n myAKSCluster --enable-managed-identity --enable-pod-identity --network-plugin azure
This doesn't work and figured out I need to run each flag one at a time, so I had to run --enable-managed-identity first since --enable-pod-identity depends on it.
At any rate, when I get to the --enable-pod-identity I get the following error:
Operation failed with status: 'Bad Request'. Details: Network plugin kubenet is not supported to use with PodIdentity addon.
So I try the --network-plugin azure and get:
az: error: unrecognized arguments: --network-plugin azure
Apparently this is flag is not available with update.
Poking around in the Azure portal for the AKS resource, I do see kubenet listed, but I'm not able to change it.
So, the question: Is it possible to change the Network Plugin on existing cluster or do I need to start a new?
EDIT: Looks like others are having similar issues on existing clusters:
https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/2094
Is it possible to change the Network Plugin on the existing cluster or do
I need to start a new?
It's impossible to change the network plugin on the existing cluster, so you need to create a new cluster and set the network plugin with azure at the creation time. You can find there is no parameter --network-plugin in the CLI command az aks update even if you install the aks-preview extension. It means it does not support changing the network plugin of the existing cluster.

Azure AKS - I disabled addon-http-application-routing but pods, deployments, services and stuff is till in the cluster

I have a brand new kubernetes cluster on AKS.
I disabled the addons with the azure-cli as described in documentation:
az aks disable-addons --addons http_application_routing --name myAKSCluster --resource-group myResourceGroup --no-wait
The portal shows no domain associated to the cluster.
But with kubelets I still see all the pods and deployments related to the addon.
I tried to delete deployments and stuff with kubectl, but the deployments recreates themself.
Have anybody experienced the same?
Thanks!
there is a known issue with 1.12.6
Unable to disable addons on deployed clusters
AKS Engineering is diagnosing an issue around existing/deployed clusters being unable to disable Kubernetes addons within the addon-manager. When we have identified and repaired the issue we will roll out the required hot fix to all regions.
This impacts all addons including monitoring, http application routing, etc.
https://github.com/Azure/AKS/releases

Unable to open the kubernetes dashboard in Azure Kubernetes Service

I created kubernetes cluster in my Azure resource group using Azure Kubernetes Service and login into cluster with the help of resource group credentials through Azure CLI. I could opened the kubernetes dashboard successfully for the first time. After that i deleted my resource group and other resource groups which are defaultly created along with kubernetes cluster. I created resource group and kubernetes cluster one more time in my azure account. i am trying to open the kubernetes dashboard next time, getting error like 8001 port not open. I tried with proxy port-forwarding, but i don't have idea how to hit the dashboard url with different port?.
Could anybody suggest me how to resolve this issue?
I think you need to delete your kubernetes config and pull new one with az aks get-credentials or whatever you are using, because you are probably still using config from the previous cluster (hint: it wont work because its a different cluster).
you can do that by deleting this file: ~/.kube/config and pull the new one and try kubectl get nodes. if that works try the port-forward. It is not port related. something is wrong with your config\az cli
ok, I recall in the previous question you mentioned you started using RBAC, you need to add cluster role to the dashboard:
kubectl create clusterrolebinding kubernetes-dashboard --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:kubernetes-dashboard
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-dashboard#for-rbac-enabled-clusters

Error when trying to get Azure Kubernetes Service to use Cluster Load balancer from Service

I'm working to get Streamsets Data Collector running in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and when I run kubectl .... the service appears to be up, however its giving this error. This is an RBAC AKS Cluster so I think I need to give the service principal permissions AND/OR do a cluster role binding to that service in Kubernetes. Any ideas?
The error shows invalid client. It probably means that the original service principal secret of your AKS cluster is invalid or expired. See the similar error here.
Follow that link, you can find the original client secret when you deploy the AKS cluster, so that you can re-add that as a key to the Service Principal. On the master and node VMs in the Kubernetes cluster, the service principal credentials are stored in the file /etc/kubernetes/azure.json.
On the VM page---Run command---choose RunShellScript---Enter cat /etc/kubernetes/azure.json and click "Run" then you could find the property aadClientSecret.
For more details, you could read Service principals with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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