# Easy access to kubernetes-ShinyProxy with outside Shiny App

**URL:** <https://support.openanalytics.eu/t/easy-access-to-kubernetes-shinyproxy-with-outside-shiny-app/2801>\
**Category:** ShinyProxy\
**Created:** [June 22, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://support.openanalytics.eu/t/easy-access-to-kubernetes-shinyproxy-with-outside-shiny-app/2801 "2024-06-22T16:08:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![IlyaZar](https://support.openanalytics.eu/user_avatar/support.openanalytics.eu/ilyazar/32/965_2.png) [@IlyaZar](https://support.openanalytics.eu/u/IlyaZar)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://support.openanalytics.eu/t/easy-access-to-kubernetes-shinyproxy-with-outside-shiny-app/2801/1 "2024-06-22T16:08:11Z")

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Hi everyone,

Thank you for designing this great tool !

**Deployment setup:** Digital Ocean droplet running Kubernetes with ShinyProxy and shinyproxy-operator, possibly with NGINX and a SQL database serving the ShinyProxy apps.

**Goal:** Develop external Shiny app to manage the Kubernetes-ShinyProxy setup from outside:

1. Authentication and user group management.
2. Container resource management (pre-initialization, sharing).
3. Upload/removal of Docker containers (in-house or third-party applications, mostly shiny R or python but might be extended later).
4. Access to ShinyProxy monitoring.

**To-Do (as far as I understand this …):**

1. Develop a Shiny app that can alter `application.yml` externally.
2. Push a Docker image to Kubernetes, build it, or update `application.yml` to pull from a Docker registry.
3. Run ShinyProxy-monitoring on demand and present its output within the Shiny app or route to an independent ShinyProxy-monitoring instance.

**Questions:**

1. Can we alter `application.yml` of Kubernetes-ShinyProxy via a Shiny app (both running on the Digital-ocean server) or push Docker images to Kubernetes from outside ?
2. Is it possible to re-route ShinyProxy-monitoring to be accessed from a different Shiny app or embed shiny-proxy monitoring in a dedicated tab of this external shiny-app?
3. Any experiences, tricks or common pitfalls with all of this ?

Looking forward to implement and report on the progress of this here (in a couple of months 🙂 … )