Kubernetes: Unable to access the Kubernetes Dashboard on Google Cloud Platform

Question

This is my first time of setting up Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.

These are the steps I followed:

I created an account on Google Cloud Platform and spun up a new instance:

https://console.cloud.google.com/compute

Installed the gcloud SDK:

curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash

Configured my Google Cloud Platform account information

gcloud auth login

Installed the latest verion of Kubernetes

curl -sS https://get.k8s.io | bash

Launched a new cluster:

kubernetes/cluster/kube-up.sh

Confirmed that my configuration along with the cluster management credentials are stored in:

sudo nano /home/promisepreston/.kube/config

Installed kubectl on the server

curl -LO "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Ran the command below which outputted the URL for the master services including DNS, UI, and monitoring

kubectl cluster-info

Deployed the Dashboard UI by running the following command:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.0.0/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml

And finally, I tried accessing the Dashboard by running the following command:

kubectl proxy

Which should make the Dashboard available at:

http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/

However, when I visit that URL I get error:

Unable to connect

And even when I try the command below:

curl http://localhost:8001/api

I get the error below:

curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8001: Connection refused

I have looked through a lot of documentation and tried multiple solutions, but none seems to work for me.

Any form of assistance will be appreciated. Thank you