The landscape of CNCF projects related to Kubernetes is famously vast and rich, each helping its users solve the problems it was designed for. When it comes to using those tools though, even if they provide a graphical/textual user-interface, users still have to set up or run those different UIs, which may be inconsistent in configuration, design, and experience.

What is needed is a common, vendor-neutral, graphical UI platform focused on Kubernetes, on which those various projects can offer their own experience in a unified, consistent way. Headlamp is a CNCF Sandbox project designed to enable this scenario via an extensible GUI with support for plug-ins.

In this talk, we share how the Headlamp project has accomplished this, and demonstrate a range of plug-ins that highlight the capabilities of those cloud-native tools, while integrating them in a single UI for a coherent user experience. We will share the process we followed and how other projects can onboard into Headlamp.