Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser.
Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management. It lets platform teams provision, upgrade, and manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters using standard Kubernetes objects stored and reconciled in a management cluster.
Managing Cluster API resources has historically required raw kubectl commands and deep familiarity with ownership hierarchies. The Headlamp Cluster API plugin brings visual clarity, faster debugging, and simplified operations for platform teams, directly inside Headlamp.

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The Headlamp Cluster API plugin is a new open-source plugin for the Headlamp Kubernetes UI that brings visual management of Cluster API (CAPI) resources. It replaces raw kubectl commands with a dedicated UI section featuring cluster overviews, machine visibility, a health dashboard, control plane monitoring, one-click scaling of MachineDeployments and MachineSets, bootstrap config inspection, a visual map view of resource relationships, and Prometheus metrics integration. The plugin supports both v1beta1 and v1beta2 CAPI API versions and was developed during the CNCF LFX Mentorship program. It is currently in Alpha release.

Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp