Yes, we need a new dashboard!
summary
Headlamp is an open‑source Apache 2.0 Kubernetes dashboard built with React + Material‑UI frontend and a Go backend, designed for multi‑cluster use with permissions-aware edit/delete buttons and an experimental plugin system that can add routes, views and header actions. A locomotive distro ships a few plugins; one shows kernel‑level traces via Inspector Gadget traces so crashed pods remain debuggable. Project is early alpha, desktop builds planned and core aims to stay vendor‑independent and accessible.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00Why we need a dashboard
- 1:54Open source
- 2:32Vendor independent
- 4:13Traditional
- 5:25Clean UI
- 6:32Readonly approach
- 7:27Multicluster approach
- 8:01Many dashboards
- 8:28The logical choice
- 9:42The current dashboard
- 12:33Plugins
- 14:03Current status
- 14:27Live demo
- 18:58Thank you
- 19:16How are traces cleaned
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