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Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for? (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Anything that needs to be configured with YAML, and Kubernetes in particular.

I mean I get the whole Infrastructure as Code hype (although I have never witnessed or heard of a situation where an entire cluster needed to be revived from scratch), but it should be very possible to make a gui that writes the YAML for you.

I don't want to memorize every possible setting and what it does and if someone makes a typo in the config (or in the white space, as it's YAML) everything is borked.

Call me old-fashioned but the graphical ui of something like octopus deploy was a thousand times more user friendly imho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That UI is called VSCode

At the top of your .yaml file, you can set a JSON Schema. Example:

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://json.schemastore.org/prometheus.json

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: caddy
    static_configs:
      - targets:
          - caddy:2019

This way, you don't have to memorize every possible setting and what it does and risk making a typo in the config. VSCode will just tell you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I think infrastructure as code is best utilized when paired with software testing and rapid deployment. It allows for a kind of granularity manual configuration doesn't give you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A few IDEs already provide some help with YAML. Rider will tell you if you've screwed up the YAML for a GitHub Actions workflow, and possibly docker-compose as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think it’s easy to make a generic YAML editor that all you need to do is to pass a “definitions” file that says all the possible options to show as a drop down or toggle etc.

That would be useful for many projects.