This is an interesting use-case, one way you might be able to achieve this is using technosophos' template plugin[1] which will allow you to skip the trip to the cluster and render templates client-side.

[1] https://github.com/technosophos/helm-template

Looks like what I was looking for. Only minor nit is that I can't set --name like in helm install, but I can easily just search and replace in the yaml file.

Yes! KubeApps.com is a running public instance of Monocular that indexes the official Kubernetes charts repositories (https://github.com/kubernetes/charts).

To find out more about Monocular, here are some blog posts:

- https://engineering.bitnami.com/2017/02/22/what-the-helm-is-...

- https://deis.com/blog/2017/building-a-helm-ui/

Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback, it's something we've been discussing about putting on the roadmap. If you have any more thoughts on how this could work, we'd love to hear your thoughts in the issue queue https://github.com/helm/monocular/issues.

This is a really great post, excited to give the OAuth 2 auth a try.

FWIW, an easier way to get started with the NGINX Ingress and kube-lego services is using the official Helm[1] Charts for them (https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/ngin... and https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/kube...).

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/helm

BBC News' wraith[1] is a pretty great tool for this, although it doesn't really support a more complex web app flow (e.g. logging in) very well.

[1] https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith.

If you need workflows, there's also VisualReview [1] with some basic workflow for approval testing, and Applitools [2], a commercial tool with integration with Selenium, Appium and Protractor that can do screenshot and video comparisons. I wrote about them as part of the 'Automated testing: back to the future' tools review [3]. In the article, I also mentioned DomReactor, but that seems to be discontinued now.

[1] https://github.com/xebia/VisualReview

[2] https://applitools.com/

[3] https://gojko.net/2015/11/16/automated-testing-future/

I wrote a tool that compares images using Applitools for Automattic during the React Wordpress admin rewrite a while back. The idea is you'd have a style guide with examples of all your ui components and render and compare them in various states with various test data. https://github.com/davidjnelson/css-visual-test

I have been researching visual review processes for a project[0] and never ran across VisualReview. I have mainly focused on the screenshot diffing algorithm, but planned on creating a nice notification/approval UX. It might be time for a little collaboration.

[0] https://github.com/deckar01/narcis

Hi, I'm an engineer on the Bitnami team working on Stacksmith. If you’re already comfortable maintaining your image stack, keep writing Dockerfiles manually.

We don't think that the average Python developer should have to know apt, yum, apk, the packaging multi-verse, and bash just to get a secure environment where ‘pip install’ works reliably.

We created Stacksmith to help application developers keep their container images up-to-date with ease, without having to worry about the underlying stack too much, whilst still giving completely visibility into what's inside. This opens up the benefits of containers to a much wider audience of developers over time.

Bitnami runs a monthly contest[0] where you can vote for your favourite application to be packaged. I couldn't find an entry for Dada Mail, but you can go ahead and submit it for review[1] and we can add it to the contest.

[0] https://bitnami.com/contest

[1] https://bitnami.com/contest/new_application

I'm not really interested in a somewhat gamification for the inclusion of the app into the lineup.

The winners are first the users, who have an easier way to install the app (it's already given away for free) and you, which are given another solid app to offer.

I don't really get anything by entering the app in a contest. I'm not really interested in contesting the app at all. But, to give your users more choice on what to use? Again a total win for you.

We have literally hundreds of open source projects that want to be part of Bitnami and limited resources. The contest is the best way we could come up with to help us prioritize

You are right it is difficult to keep self-managed installations secure vs. just using a SaaS provider, especially when some of the users only have basic admin skills. Having said that, we do our best to have secure settings by default, respond promptly to security issues (typically we release new images within hours of a new version being announced) and in particular in the case of WordPress we pre-configure everything out so automatic updates are enabled out of the box (which the user can also manage from the admin panel without touching the command line).

You can head to https://digitalocean.bitnami.com/ to launch a Bitnami app in your DigitalOcean account.

Hi Manish,

Our images do change some configuration options based on the type of instance that we detect on boot. It would be great if you could get in touch with us at hello@bitnami.com and let us know the details of what you had to configure manually, so that we can improve this.