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Headlamp

Purpose: For platform engineers, operators, developers, documents the Headlamp service in openCenter-gitops-base.

headlamp is a web UI for browsing and operating Kubernetes clusters. In this repository it is packaged as a Helm release and commonly paired with OIDC and RBAC.

What This Repo Deploys

  • Namespace/headlamp

  • HelmRelease/headlamp

  • Base values Secret: headlamp-values-base

  • Optional override Secret: headlamp-values-override

When to Use It

  • You want a cluster dashboard with a lighter operational footprint than the Kubernetes Dashboard.

  • You want UI-based access paired with OIDC and Kubernetes RBAC.

Key Integration Points

  • Keycloak or another OIDC provider usually handles login.

  • rbac-manager or native RBAC defines what users can see and do.

Example

config:
  oidc:
    clientID: headlamp
    issuerURL: https://auth.example.com/realms/opencenter
    callbackURL: https://headlamp.example.com/oidc-callback

Configuration Surfaces

  • Service path: applications/base/services/headlamp/

  • Namespace: headlamp

  • Flux object: HelmRelease/headlamp

  • Source: Kubernetes SIGs Headlamp Helm repository

Upstream References