How can I access port 8001 with a proxy server even when it's not open?

Question

So I did the following:

minikube dashboard    
kubectl proxy

And it says Starting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8001, however this port is not open on my VM (not included in my firewall rules)

then how am I able to access it via ssh tunneling?

Basically I did this:

ssh -L 12345:localhost:8001 myLogin@myRemoteServer

And then accessed it as:

http://localhost:12345/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/http:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/#/pod?namespace=default

Answer 1

I find this helpful kubectl proxy --address='0.0.0.0' --disable-filter=true