Headlamp: Headlamp in 2025: Project Highlights
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 has come to a close, and it was great seeing so many of you in Atlanta! Over the past year, Headlamp has continued to grow as a project: reaching more teams across platforms, powering new workflows and integrations through plugins, and seeing increased collaboration from the broader community.
Whether you caught our demos and sessions in person or are just catching up now, we wanted to give a few updates and highlight how Headlamp has evolved in 2025.
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 Enlightning with Whitney Lee and a talk at KCD New York 2025.
AKS Desktop Preview
Now in private preview is AKS Desktop, an application-centric experience addressing the complexity developers face when working with Kubernetes. Rather than troubleshooting setup, teams can quickly create and manage applications on Azure Kubernetes Service. Built on Headlamp’s intuitive interface, AKS Desktop combines supported and preconfigured AKS features so engineers can focus on building great solutions.