<p>I am following the instructions (<a href="https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/che-7/installation-guide/installing-che-on-minikube/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/che-7/installation-guide/installing-che-on-minikube/</a>) to install Eclipse:Che from Minikube hosted on a remote ubuntu VM box;</p>
<p>I got the installation done successfully,</p>
<p>[![enter image description here][1]][1]</p>
<p>I could access the portal from ubuntu VM console:</p>
<p>[![enter image description here][2]][2]</p>
<p>overhere, the 172.17.0.3 is actually the minikube IP;</p>
<p>How do I enable external access to <a href="https://che-che.172.17.0.3.nip.io/dashboard/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://che-che.172.17.0.3.nip.io/dashboard/</a>?</p>
<p>from my reading and googling, it seems like SSH forwarding is the right way, but I am struggling to get it correct.</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>====== update 2020.11.27 =====</p>
<pre><code>$ minikube start --addons=ingress  --memory=8192
$ chectl server:deploy --platform minikube --installer helm
$ kubectl expose deployment che --type=NodePort -n che --port 8080

$ kubectl get svc -n che
NAME               TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)             AGE
che                NodePort    10.109.226.80    &lt;none&gt;        8080:32540/TCP      16h
che-dashboard      ClusterIP   10.105.102.187   &lt;none&gt;        8080/TCP            17h
che-host           ClusterIP   10.106.2.155     &lt;none&gt;        8080/TCP,8087/TCP   17h
devfile-registry   ClusterIP   10.103.124.53    &lt;none&gt;        8080/TCP            17h
plugin-registry    ClusterIP   10.97.131.33     &lt;none&gt;        8080/TCP            17h

$ minikube service  -n che che
|-----------|------|-------------|-------------------------|
| NAMESPACE | NAME | TARGET PORT |           URL           |
|-----------|------|-------------|-------------------------|
| che       | che  |        8080 | http://172.17.0.4:32540 |
|-----------|------|-------------|-------------------------|
🎉  Opening service che/che in default browser...
👉  http://172.17.0.4:32540

chaoshi@prd-sal-demo01:~$ kubectl port-forward -n che svc/che 9911:8080
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:9911 -&gt; 8080
Forwarding from [::1]:9911 -&gt; 8080
Handling connection for 9911
Handling connection for 9911
Handling connection for 9911
Handling connection for 9911
Handling connection for 9911

$ curl http://localhost:9911
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  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/sVZVz.png
  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/JsOOW.png
  [3]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/maoWv.png
</code></pre>

<p>First, you should create a NodePort type service and then the app will be available on your Ubuntu VM's IP and on the port provided in the NodePort service config</p>
<p>The port should be 8080 when creating service. The nodePort gets randomly assigned (or you can choose it --nodePort ). For your config, you can see it in the output 172.17.0.4:31243. So the port is 31243.
Reference: <a href="https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/accessing/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/accessing/</a></p>
<p>For deployment portforward will not work instead use service. Try other port of your service:
Here, first port is Host Port and seccond port is container port.</p>
<p><em>kubectl port-forward svc/che 8080:8080</em></p>
<p>Once it's accessible on localhost:8080 you can access it outside the VM using
externalIPofVM:8080</p>
