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Viktor Farcic
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Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations
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Using Monocular

I don't think that UIs are useful. We tend to focus on the features they provide, and that distracts us from command line and code. We often get so immersed into filling fields and clicking buttons, that we often forget that the key to automation is to master CLIs and to write code that lives in a code repository. I think that UIs do more damage than good to software engineers.

That being said, I am fully aware that not everyone shares my views. Some like UIs and prefer pretty colors over black and white terminal screens. For those, I will guide you how to get a UI that will utilize Helm repositories and allow you to do some of the things we did through CLI by clicking buttons. We'll explore Monocular (https://github.com/helm/monocular).

Monocular is web-based UI for managing Kubernetes applications packaged as Helm Charts.

It allows us to search and...

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Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations
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