1.State of the UI: Leveraging Kubernetes Dashboard and Shaping its Future Spencer Sugarman Dan Romlein UX Researcher, Google UX Designer, Google 

2. 1. What Dashboard is and why you should be using it Talk Goals 2. Research findings and the future of Dashboard 3. Where to learn more and how to get involved 

3.About Kubernetes Dashboard 

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5.Dashboard 1.0 launched in 2016 

6.github.com/kubernetes/dashboard 

7.SIG-UI Team Piotr Bryk, Google Peng Xiao, Alauda Sebastian Florek (co-lead), Loodse Jeffrey Sica, University of Michigan Jim Angel, General Motors Marcin Maciaszczyk, Loodse 

8.Why a UI? 

9.60% of survey takers use a UI to monitor or manage their resources in Kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/issues /3256#issuecomment-437199403 https://unsplash.com/ 

10.UIs help you understand what’s going on with your cluster, fast. 

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13.Dashboard UI & kubectl Dashboard Strengths: Kubectl Strengths: ● Providing an overview ● In-Terminal workflows ● Monitoring & troubleshooting ● Frequently-repeated tasks ● Sharing with non-technical ● Scripting & automation stakeholders ● Sharing workflows / ● Infrequent tasks reproducibility ● Onboarding new K8s users / ● Customization learning 

14.Onboarding new K8s users https://unsplash.com/ 

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16. How useful is the Kubernetes Dashboard for learning Kubernetes? 您认为Kubernetes Dashboard对学习Kubernetes有多大用处？ Over 50% of survey takers said that Dashboard is very useful or extremely useful for learning Kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/issues /3256#issuecomment-437199403 

17.“At the start it was great to be able to visually see the resources and understand how they are grouped. This helped someone like me with a hands-on but visual learning style.” → Survey response → Developer, running Kubernetes in AWS, Azure, and on-prem 

18.Dashboard as a K8s learning tool 

19.Create, read, update, delete resources. 

20. Recent and upcoming features https://unsplash.com/ 

21.Features since 2016 KubeCon update github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/releases ● Exec into pod ● Global search ● Login mechanism ● Settings page ● Support for Cron Jobs ● Redesigned resource creation ● ...and much much more. 

22.In-progress work ● Migrating from ng1 to ng2 (#3152) ● Migrating metrics from Heapster to Kubernetes Metrics API (#2986) ● Apps list page (#2980) 

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25.Demo 

26.Future of Dashboard 

27. How do people use Dashboard today, and want to use it tomorrow? https://unsplash.com/ 

28.About the survey How would you rate your knowledge of Kubernetes? 您如何评价您对于Kubernetes的了解程度？ 163 Responses https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/issues /3256#issuecomment-437199403 

29.Top requested changes 1. Third-party plugins or integrations 集成第三方插件 2. Feature parity with kubectl 功能与kubectl保持一致 3. Multi-cluster management 多集群管理 4. Improved security 提高安全性