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The minikube dashboard command is used in Kubernetes to launch a web-based dashboard for managing and monitoring your local Kubernetes cluster created with Minikube.

Minikube is a tool that allows you to set up a single-node Kubernetes cluster on your local machine for development and testing purposes. It provides an easy way to create, modify, and delete Kubernetes resources without the need for a full-scale production cluster.

When you run the minikube dashboard command, it starts a Kubernetes web dashboard, which enables you to visualize and manage your Minikube cluster through a graphical user interface (GUI). The dashboard offers various features, such as:

1. Overview: Provides a summary of your cluster's current state, including information about the nodes, pods, deployments, and services.

2. Workloads: Allows you to view and manage your running applications and their corresponding pods, deployments, replica sets, and services.

3. Services: Displays the services in your cluster and allows you to create, modify, and delete services.

4. Storage: Shows information about the persistent volumes and persistent volume claims in your cluster, enabling you to manage storage resources.

5. Configurations: Enables you to view and edit the configuration of your cluster, such as namespaces and secrets.

6. Discovery & Load Balancing: Provides insights into the cluster's load balancing and discovery mechanisms.

By accessing the dashboard, you can conveniently interact with your Minikube cluster without the need to use command-line interfaces (CLIs) to create and manage Kubernetes resources. The minikube dashboard command opens the dashboard in your default web browser, displaying a user-friendly interface to manage your cluster's resources visually.