Headlamp in 2025: Project Highlights

Headlamp in 2025: Project Highlights Updates Joining Kubernetes SIG UI Linux Foundation mentorship New changes Multi-cluster view Projects Navigation and Activities Search and map OIDC and authentication App Catalog and Helm Performance, accessibility, and UX Plugins and extensibility Headlamp AI Assistant New plugins additions Other plugins updates Plugin development Security upgrades Conclusion This announcement is a recap from a post originally published on the Headlamp blog. Headlamp has come a long way in 2025. The project has continued to grow – reaching more teams across platforms, powering new workflows and integrations through plugins, and seeing increased collaboration from the broader community. We wanted to take a moment to share a few updates and highlight how Headlamp has evolved over the past year. This year marked a big milestone for the project: Headlamp is now officially part of Kubernetes SIG UI. This move brings roadmap and design discussions even closer to the core Kubernetes community and reinforces Headlamp’s role as a modern, extensible UI for the project. As part of that, we’ve also been sharing more about making Kubernetes approachable for a wider audience, including an appearance on Enlightening with Whitney Lee and a talk at KCD New York 2025. This year, we were excited to work with several students through the Linux Foundation’s Mentorship program, and our mentees have already left a visible mark on Headlamp: Adwait Godbole built the KEDA plugin, adding a UI in Headlamp to view and manage KEDA resources like ScaledObjects and ScaledJobs. Dhairya Majmudar set up an OpenTelemetry-based observability stack for Headlamp, wiring up metrics, logs, and traces so the project is easier to monitor and debug. Aishwarya Ghatole led a UX audit of Headlamp plugins, identifying usability issues and proposing design improvements and personas for plugin users. Anirban Singha developed the Karpenter plugin, giving Headlamp a focused view into Karpenter autoscaling resources and decisions. Aditya Chaudhary improved Gateway API support, so you can see networking relationships on the resource map, as well as improved support for many of the new Gateway API resources.