Community plugins: 6 Headlamp plugins for K8s infrastructure visibility

Hi folks — we're Privileged Escalation, an open source org that's been building Headlamp plugins for Kubernetes infrastructure tooling. We've published 6 plugins to Artifact Hub over the past few months and wanted to introduce ourselves to the community.

Our plugins

All are Apache-2.0 licensed, published on Artifact Hub, and compatible with Headlamp's plugin system:

Plugin	What it does	Repo
headlamp-polaris-plugin	Fairwinds Polaris security and best-practices auditing	repo
headlamp-sealed-secrets-plugin	Bitnami Sealed Secrets management with client-side encryption	repo
headlamp-rook-plugin	Rook-Ceph cluster visibility — CephCluster health, pool status, CSI monitoring	repo
headlamp-tns-csi-plugin	TrueNAS CSI driver visibility and kbench storage benchmarking	repo
headlamp-intel-gpu-plugin	Intel GPU device visibility and resource monitoring	repo
headlamp-kube-vip-plugin	kube-vip virtual IP and load balancer visibility	repo

What we'd like to do

1. Get listed in the External Plugins table in this repo's README — happy to open a PR adding our plugins, similar to how Strimzi was added in Add Strimzi Headlamp plugin to external plugins #532.

2. Contribute to plugin development resources — we've built 6 plugins at this point and have run into various patterns and edge cases. If there's interest, we'd be glad to contribute examples, documentation improvements, or help review community plugin PRs.

3. Hear about community plugin plans — is there any discussion around a more structured community plugin showcase, discovery improvements in the plugin-catalog, or contribution guidelines for external plugins? We'd like to participate in shaping that if so.

Context

We built these plugins because we run real Kubernetes infrastructure and wanted better visibility into the tools we already use (Rook-Ceph, Sealed Secrets, Polaris, etc.) through a single dashboard. Headlamp's plugin system made that possible without forking anything, which is great.

We're not looking for anything beyond what any other community plugin author would get — just wanted to introduce ourselves and figure out how to be useful.

Looking forward to any thoughts or feedback.

[joaquimrocha]

Hey Privileged Escalation! Thanks for this! I am very curious to take a deeper look at those plugins.
I think we can indeed list them. I have also been entertaining the idea of having an allow-list of external plugins that get visible like official plugins, even if they live outside of our plugins repo, but this should involve signing plugins as well.

BTW, are you going to KubeCon in Amsterdam next week? Maybe we could meet there.