Introducing Monocular

Miguel Martinez

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Feb 22, 2017, 7:53:44 PM2/22/17

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Hi,

As some of you may know, a few of us at Bitnami and Deis have been working on building an open source web front-end for Helm chart repositories. This project is called Monocular.

Today, we have released KubeApps.com, a public website powered by Monocular to interface with the official Kubernetes Charts repository.

Our goal with Monocular and KubeApps.com, is to provide a better way to search and discover apps that have been packaged in Helm Charts. Offering a familiar user experience (i.e rubygems.org, npmjs.org).

If you want to learn more. Jack Francis, Monocular’s lead contributor, shared some project background here. I have also put together a technical overview that can found in our blog.

We’d love your feedback!

Regards,

Miguel

jfra...@deis.com

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Feb 22, 2017, 7:58:59 PM2/22/17

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Miguel and Bitnami deserve a ton of credit for pushing this over the finish line (and hosting kubeapps.com), tremendous work! Looks great!

Jack

Guangya Liu

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May 25, 2017, 7:59:41 PM5/25/17

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So what is the difference of Monocular and Helm Dashboard https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/issues/990 here?

Thanks,

Guangya

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Miguel Martinez

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May 25, 2017, 9:12:36 PM5/25/17

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Hi Guangya,

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Guangya Liu <gyli...@gmail.com> wrote:

So what is the difference of Monocular and Helm Dashboard https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/issues/990 here?

Monocular covers two scenarios:

1: External facing chart repositories frontend with a focus on charts discovery (i.e kubeapps.com)

2: In cluster experience, configured with your own repositories, settings and support for UI charts lifecycle (charts deployment, etc).

The link you posted is a proposal (not merged yet) for integrating Helm in the official Kubernetes dashboard, covering the in-cluster part of the story.

To your question, I'd say:

- Monocular can be used as an external facing charts repositories frontend as well as internal.

- Both systems aim to cover the in-cluster Helm charts and repositories lifecycle experience.

- Monocular is a standalone application while the other proposal is an extension of the k8s dashboard.

Regards,

Miguel

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Miguel Martinez <mig...@bitnami.com> wrote:

Hi,

As some of you may know, a few of us at Bitnami and Deis have been working on building an open source web front-end for Helm chart repositories. This project is called Monocular.

Today, we have released KubeApps.com, a public website powered by Monocular to interface with the official Kubernetes Charts repository.

Our goal with Monocular and KubeApps.com, is to provide a better way to search and discover apps that have been packaged in Helm Charts. Offering a familiar user experience (i.e rubygems.org, npmjs.org).

If you want to learn more. Jack Francis, Monocular’s lead contributor, shared some project background here. I have also put together a technical overview that can found in our blog.

We’d love your feedback!

Regards,
Miguel

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Guangya Liu

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May 25, 2017, 9:59:47 PM5/25/17

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Thanks Miguel for the quick response, still have more questions about "External facing". Can you please show more about "External facing", does it mean use the app center in the public cloud? BTW: I also think that helm can also support external facing if I was building a public cloud via helm?

I was not trying to build a Local/Private container cloud based on Kubernetes and also want to have the App Center function, I think that I can choose either Helm or Monocular as my app center, seems both can fulfill my requirement.

Thanks,

Guangya

在 2017年5月26日星期五 UTC+8上午9:12:36，Miguel Martinez写道：

Hi Guangya,

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Guangya Liu <gyli...@gmail.com> wrote:
So what is the difference of Monocular and Helm Dashboard https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/issues/990 here?

Monocular covers two scenarios:

1: External facing chart repositories frontend with a focus on charts discovery (i.e kubeapps.com)
2: In cluster experience, configured with your own repositories, settings and support for UI charts lifecycle (charts deployment, etc).

The link you posted is a proposal (not merged yet) for integrating Helm in the official Kubernetes dashboard, covering the in-cluster part of the story.

To your question, I'd say:

- Monocular can be used as an external facing charts repositories frontend as well as internal.
- Both systems aim to cover the in-cluster Helm charts and repositories lifecycle experience.
- Monocular is a standalone application while the other proposal is an extension of the k8s dashboard.

Regards,
Miguel

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Miguel Martinez <mig...@bitnami.com> wrote:

Hi,

As some of you may know, a few of us at Bitnami and Deis have been working on building an open source web front-end for Helm chart repositories. This project is called Monocular.

Today, we have released KubeApps.com, a public website powered by Monocular to interface with the official Kubernetes Charts repository.

Our goal with Monocular and KubeApps.com, is to provide a better way to search and discover apps that have been packaged in Helm Charts. Offering a familiar user experience (i.e rubygems.org, npmjs.org).

If you want to learn more. Jack Francis, Monocular’s lead contributor, shared some project background here. I have also put together a technical overview that can found in our blog.

We’d love your feedback!

Regards,
Miguel

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