CNCF Project
Headlamp
Term
2026 Term 3 (Sep-Nov)
Program Name
Improving Kueue plugin for Headlamp
Program Description
Description
Headlamp is an extensible web UI for Kubernetes. Kueue is a Kubernetes-native queueing system that controls when batch, AI/ML, and high-performance computing workloads are admitted and how they share resources.
This project builds on the existing Headlamp Kueue plugin and the previous project's foundational work. That work is expected to provide core resource views, status presentation, related-resource navigation, basic actions, tests, and documentation. This project will improve that foundation and develop advanced features based on user needs and Kueue's state at the start of the term.
Potential areas include visualizing workload progress through queueing, admission, execution, and completion; showing relationships among Kueue resources; and improving topology-aware scheduling views. MultiKueue work could help users understand manager and worker clusters, connectivity, workload nomination and routing, and the cluster selected to run a workload.
The feature set will be agreed after reviewing the plugin and gathering community feedback. The project will also polish current views, improve accessibility and internationalization, strengthen tests, and update documentation. The goal is a maintainable plugin that helps users and administrators understand and troubleshoot Kueue.
Expected outcomes
By the end of the term, the mentee is expected to have:
- Reviewed the plugin and upstream work, gathered feedback, and agreed on a plan that does not duplicate the previous project.
- Delivered reviewed or review-ready improvements to existing views, navigation, status presentation, and error, loading, or empty states.
- Implemented advanced features or visualizations covering areas such as workload lifecycle, resource relationships, MultiKueue, or topology-aware scheduling.
- Improved accessibility, including keyboard operation, meaningful labels, non-color-only status communication, and accessible alternatives for visual information.
- Kubernetes blog post on the project outcome
- Improved internationalization by moving relevant user-facing strings into Headlamp's localization system and ensuring views accommodate translated content.
- Added focused automated tests, representative Kubernetes manifests or fixtures, and documentation for the implemented features.
- Collaborated with the Headlamp community through issues, design discussions, code reviews, and incremental pull requests, leaving the plugin in a maintainable state for future contributors.
Technologies
TypeScript, React, (Optional) Kubernetes CRDs and Operators
Skills same as Technologies?
Required/Desirable Skills
No response
Mentors
Kevin Hannon | @kannon92 | kehannon@redhat.com | kannon92
Rene Dudfield | @illume | renedudfield@microsoft.com | illume
Heba Elayoty | @helayoty | hebaelayoty@gmail.com | helayoty
Upstream Issue URL
headlamp-k8s/plugins#937
Application Prerequisites
Coding Challenge URL
No response
Custom Prerequisite Name
No response
Custom Prerequisite Description
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Custom Prerequisite — File Upload
CNCF Project
Headlamp
Term
2026 Term 3 (Sep-Nov)
Program Name
Improving Kueue plugin for Headlamp
Program Description
Description
Headlamp is an extensible web UI for Kubernetes. Kueue is a Kubernetes-native queueing system that controls when batch, AI/ML, and high-performance computing workloads are admitted and how they share resources.
This project builds on the existing Headlamp Kueue plugin and the previous project's foundational work. That work is expected to provide core resource views, status presentation, related-resource navigation, basic actions, tests, and documentation. This project will improve that foundation and develop advanced features based on user needs and Kueue's state at the start of the term.
Potential areas include visualizing workload progress through queueing, admission, execution, and completion; showing relationships among Kueue resources; and improving topology-aware scheduling views. MultiKueue work could help users understand manager and worker clusters, connectivity, workload nomination and routing, and the cluster selected to run a workload.
The feature set will be agreed after reviewing the plugin and gathering community feedback. The project will also polish current views, improve accessibility and internationalization, strengthen tests, and update documentation. The goal is a maintainable plugin that helps users and administrators understand and troubleshoot Kueue.
Expected outcomes
By the end of the term, the mentee is expected to have:
Technologies
TypeScript, React, (Optional) Kubernetes CRDs and Operators
Skills same as Technologies?
Required/Desirable Skills
No response
Mentors
Kevin Hannon | @kannon92 | kehannon@redhat.com | kannon92
Rene Dudfield | @illume | renedudfield@microsoft.com | illume
Heba Elayoty | @helayoty | hebaelayoty@gmail.com | helayoty
Upstream Issue URL
headlamp-k8s/plugins#937
Application Prerequisites
Coding Challenge URL
No response
Custom Prerequisite Name
No response
Custom Prerequisite Description
No response
Custom Prerequisite — File Upload