Exposing the traefik dashboard in k3d/k3s

Traefik Traefik v2
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I am attempting to persistently expose the traefik dashboard using configuration from a k3d/k3s cluster.

With the latest k3d/k3s, it installs traefik v2 along with the dashboard enabled. I can successfully get to the dashboard when running: kubectl -n kube-system port-forward $(kubectl -n kube-system get pods --selector "app.kubernetes.io/name=traefik" --output=name) 9000:9000.

However, I cannot seem to expose the same dashboard using the "IngressRoute" configuration and I think this might be because of Klipper LB and/or my ignorance of all of the technologies being used.

Any thoughts? To replicate, install k3d and run a k3d create cluster ... and then attempt to expose the traefik dashboard through configuration rather than commands.

At first, I thought the dashboard might be disabled and that I needed to configure traefik, so I posted this question: kubernetes - Where did the k3d traefik configmap go? - Stack Overflow

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Traefik service of LoadBalancer type doesnt expose default port for dashboard entrypoint 9000.
Also load balancer created by k3d (nginx container) doesnt know anything about port 9000

There is 2 options I see

  1. Fix nginx container and trafik service to both expose port 9000
  2. Make traefik dashboard to be exposed on web / websecure entrypointa so you can use common http / https ports

You would experience the similar issue installing traefik in AWS EKS for example, since no load balancers aware of Trawfik internal 9000 port where dashboard is exposed.