Update kro Headlamp post: embedded graphs have landed

[danbruno101]

Updates "Making kro's Resource Graphs Visible: A Headlamp Plugin (Alpha)" now that the embedded-graph work has landed. Branched fresh from main.

Changes

src/content/blog/kro-headlamp-plugin-alpha.md:

• New "Update: embedded graphs have landed" section. The post's headline limitation — per-RGD and per-instance graphs living only in the global Map view — is resolved. Covers the headlamp#6992 renderer export, the plugin adopting it (template DAG on the RGD detail page, live resource graph on the instance detail page), native GraphView with KubeIcons and the standard node details panel on hosts newer than Headlamp 0.44.0, and automatic fallback to the plugin's built-in renderer on 0.44.0 and older. Links the in-flight plugins#1182.
• Rewrote "What's still rough" around what actually remains: the embedded graphs inherit Map chrome, the namespace-filter reset, and ?node=/?group= query params from the renderer they're built on. Framed as upstream behaviors rather than plugin bugs, tracked in headlamp#7242 (requesting an opt-in embedded mode). The unrelated Map-aggregation bullet (headlamp#6555) is left as-is — nothing indicated it changed.
• Three new screenshots with alt text and captions: kro-template-graph.png, kro-instance-graph.png, kro-instance-node-details.png.
• updatedDate: 2026-08-14 so the post renders "Updated August 14, 2026" under the original date.

Source of the screenshots and the technical claims

The screenshots were pointed at via a local path on the author's machine (~/Documents/git/plugins/kro/docs/), which isn't reachable from this environment. Rather than block, I pulled them from headlamp-k8s/plugins PR #1182 directly — that branch carries exactly three changed images against main (template-graph, instance-graph, instance-node-details), matching the described set.

The wording on version thresholds, fallback behavior, and the remaining limitations is taken from that branch's kro/README.md rather than paraphrased, so the post and the plugin docs agree. Worth a skim to confirm the images are the intended ones.

Verification

• npm run build passes — 6 pages, 3 new images optimized to webp (100kB → 21kB, 92kB → 21kB, 191kB → 53kB).
• Rendered the built page in Chromium: all 7 images on the post render full-width at 672px and sit under the 640px height cap (tallest is kro-instance-node-details at 606px), and each new image is followed by its italic caption line so the caption styling lands on the intended element.
• Confirmed the meta line reads "August 4, 2026 · Updated August 14, 2026".

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