diff --git a/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/Tiltfile b/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/Tiltfile
index 1a7f2c2db4b..a1cbd334c5c 100644
--- a/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/Tiltfile
+++ b/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/Tiltfile
@@ -1,35 +1,17 @@
-# --- Frontend Build (One-time)
+# --- Frontend Build (One-time, no watch)
 local_resource(
   'frontend-assets',
   cmd='yarn install && yarn dev',
   dir='../../..',
-  deps=[
-    '../../../public/app',
-    '../../../packages',
-    '../../../scripts/webpack',
-    '../../../tsconfig.json',
-    '../../../package.json',
-    '../../../yarn.lock',
-  ],
+  allow_parallel=True,
   labels=["local"]
 )
 
-# --- Backend Build
+# --- Backend Build (One-time, no watch)
 local_resource(
   'backend-build',
   cmd='mkdir -p build && bash ./build-grafana.sh',
   dir='..',
-  deps=[
-    '../../../pkg',
-    '../../../apps',
-    '../../../kinds',
-    '../../../kindsv2',
-    '../../../local',
-    '../../../scripts',
-    '../../../conf',
-    '../../../go.sum',
-    '../../../go.mod',
-  ],
   allow_parallel=True,
   labels=["local"]
 )
@@ -45,5 +27,6 @@ dc_resource("proxy",
 dc_resource("frontend-service",
   resource_deps=["frontend-assets", "backend-build"],
   labels=["services"],
+  trigger_mode = TRIGGER_MODE_MANUAL
 )
 
diff --git a/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/mock-data/bootdata.json b/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/mock-data/bootdata.json
index 9fe61ac82e8..c7c746016aa 100644
--- a/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/mock-data/bootdata.json
+++ b/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/mock-data/bootdata.json
@@ -22,7 +22,14 @@
     "helpFlags1": 0,
     "hasEditPermissionInFolders": false,
     "authenticatedBy": "",
-    "permissions": {},
+    "permissions": {
+      "datasources:explore": true,
+      "datasources:query": true,
+      "datasources:read": true,
+      "datasources:create": true,
+      "datasources:write": true,
+      "datasources:delete": true
+    },
     "analytics": {
       "identifier": ""
     }
@@ -88,7 +95,7 @@
     "http2Enabled": false,
     "pluginCatalogURL": "https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/",
     "pluginAdminEnabled": true,
-    "pluginAdminExternalManageEnabled": false,
+    "pluginAdminExternalManageEnabled": true,
     "pluginCatalogHiddenPlugins": [],
     "expressionsEnabled": true,
     "awsAllowedAuthProviders": ["keys"],
@@ -133,6 +140,75 @@
       "icon": "home-alt",
       "url": "/",
       "sortWeight": -4000
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "dashboards/browse",
+      "text": "Dashboards",
+      "subTitle": "Create and manage dashboards to visualize your data",
+      "icon": "apps",
+      "url": "/dashboards",
+      "sortWeight": -3700,
+      "children": [
+        {
+          "id": "dashboards/playlists",
+          "text": "Playlists",
+          "subTitle": "Groups of dashboards that are displayed in a sequence",
+          "icon": "presentation-play",
+          "url": "/playlists"
+        },
+        {
+          "id": "dashboards/snapshots",
+          "text": "Snapshots",
+          "subTitle": "Interactive, publically available, parsing of data",
+          "icon": "camera",
+          "url": "/dashboard/snapshots"
+        },
+        {
+          "id": "dashboards/library-panels",
+          "text": "Library panels",
+          "subTitle": "Reusable panels that can be added to multiple dashboards",
+          "icon": "library-panel",
+          "url": "/library-panels"
+        },
+        {
+          "id": "dashboards/public",
+          "text": "Public dashboards",
+          "subTitle": "Manage public dashboards",
+          "url": "/public-dashboards"
+        },
+        {
+          "id": "dashboards/new",
+          "text": "New dashboard",
+          "icon": "plus",
+          "url": "/dashboard/new",
+          "hideFromTabs": true,
+          "isCreateAction": true
+        },
+        {
+          "id": "dashboards/folder/new",
+          "text": "New folder",
+          "icon": "plus",
+          "url": "/dashboards/folder/new",
+          "hideFromTabs": true,
+          "isCreateAction": true
+        },
+        {
+          "id": "dashboards/import",
+          "text": "Import dashboard",
+          "icon": "plus",
+          "url": "/dashboard/import",
+          "hideFromTabs": true,
+          "isCreateAction": true
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "explore",
+      "text": "Explore",
+      "subTitle": "Explore your data",
+      "icon": "compass",
+      "url": "/explore",
+      "sortWeight": -3600
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/nginx.conf b/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/nginx.conf
index d66d54ef4a7..de2536ac213 100644
--- a/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/nginx.conf
+++ b/devenv/frontend-service/local-cloud-shim/nginx.conf
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ server {
   otel_trace_context propagate;
   otel_span_name "$request_method Request";
 
+  # SSL settings for proxying to HTTPS backend
+  proxy_ssl_verify off;
+  proxy_ssl_server_name on;
+
   location ~ ^/-/down/?$ {
     add_header Set-Cookie "fs_unavailable=true; Max-Age=60; Path=/; HttpOnly" always;
     return 302 $scheme://$http_host/;
@@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ server {
     }
 
     if ($request_method = POST) {
-      proxy_pass http://backend;
+      proxy_pass https://backend;
       break;
     }
 
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@ server {
       return 503 '{"code":"Loading", "message": "Soon!"}';
     }
 
-    proxy_pass http://backend;
+    proxy_pass https://backend;
     proxy_set_header Host              $host;
     proxy_set_header X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;