Headlamp: Expanding the Headlamp Project: Embracing Plugins for a Richer Kubernetes Web UI Experience
Our goal with Headlamp has always been to create a fully featured and extensible UI that helps streamline the management of Kubernetes clusters. Today, we are introducing the next phase in our journey.
Headlamp Base and Headlamp
Up until the last release (0.16.0), Headlamp shipped as a basic Kubernetes Web UI that could be extended by creating plugins. That has served as a very clean and generic base, which is a great building block for vendors. Yet, we feel like we can go beyond this base and make Headlamp a more compelling experience for many users, while keeping its flexibility and extensibility. Thus, from now on, we are taking a more comprehensive approach: Starting with the 0.17.0 release, Headlamp ships with plugins that extend the base Kubernetes UI experience. This transforms the project into two concepts: