We Rebuilt the Kubernetes Dashboard From Scratch — Here's What We Added The official Kubernetes Dashboard was archived in January 2026. The Angular codebase was unmaintainable, the toolchain was fragile, and the upstream maintainers called it quits. We needed a dashboard for our home lab security platform — so we built one from scratch. This is the story of what we built, why we made the decisions we did, and what makes it different from the alternatives. Why Not Headlamp, Lens, or Rancher? We evaluated the obvious alternatives: Lens — desktop app, not in-cluster, commercial freemium model. Not suitable for a hardened in-cluster deployment. Headlamp — great project, but its extensibility model relies on dynamically loaded JavaScript plugins. We preferred a dashboard with no plugin runtime and a fully auditable, static codebase.…