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. Updates Joining Kubernetes SIG UI 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. Linux Foundation mentorship 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…
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