diff --git a/deployment/monocular/.gitignore b/deployment/monocular/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..948259a7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/monocular/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+charts/*.tgz
diff --git a/deployment/monocular/requirements.lock b/deployment/monocular/requirements.lock
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b915d4f0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/monocular/requirements.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+dependencies:
+- name: redis
+  repository: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
+  version: 0.8.1
+digest: sha256:06eaffdfb97b679510a6072b036358e03af85c26afa9bf8eb41b9f21cfd5fca0
+generated: 2017-08-16T18:47:21.379793272+01:00
diff --git a/deployment/monocular/requirements.yaml b/deployment/monocular/requirements.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c62c15f65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/monocular/requirements.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+dependencies:
+- name: redis
+  version: 0.8.1
+  repository: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
diff --git a/deployment/monocular/templates/_helpers.tpl b/deployment/monocular/templates/_helpers.tpl
index f0d83d2ed..a971d9b34 100644
--- a/deployment/monocular/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/deployment/monocular/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -14,3 +14,11 @@ We truncate at 63 chars because some Kubernetes name fields are limited to this
 {{- $name := default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride -}}
 {{- printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name $name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
 {{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Create a default fully qualified app name.
+We truncate at 63 chars because some Kubernetes name fields are limited to this (by the DNS naming spec).
+*/}}
+{{- define "redis.fullname" -}}
+{{- printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name "redis" | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
diff --git a/deployment/monocular/templates/api-config.yaml b/deployment/monocular/templates/api-config.yaml
index c46afbd55..25aa0438a 100644
--- a/deployment/monocular/templates/api-config.yaml
+++ b/deployment/monocular/templates/api-config.yaml
@@ -9,4 +9,7 @@ metadata:
     heritage: "{{ .Release.Service }}"
 data:
   monocular.yaml: |-
-{{ toYaml .Values.api.config | indent 4 }}
+{{ toYaml .Values.api.config | indent 4 -}}
+    redis:
+      host: {{ template "redis.fullname" . }}:6379
+
diff --git a/deployment/monocular/values.yaml b/deployment/monocular/values.yaml
index 7fb0e9c3c..fae3acfe7 100644
--- a/deployment/monocular/values.yaml
+++ b/deployment/monocular/values.yaml
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ prerender:
     requests:
       cpu: 100m
       memory: 128Mi
+redis:
+  usePassword: false
 
 ingress:
   enabled: true
diff --git a/scripts/repo-sync.sh b/scripts/repo-sync.sh
index 92d9be004..13fa155ee 100755
--- a/scripts/repo-sync.sh
+++ b/scripts/repo-sync.sh
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ install_helm
 log "Packaging charts from source code"
 pushd $BUILD_DIR
   log "Packaging chart"
+  helm dep build $CHART_PATH
   helm package $CHART_PATH
 
   log "Indexing repository"
@@ -135,4 +136,4 @@ fi
 
 log "Repository cleanup and reset"
 git reset --hard upstream/master
-git clean -df .
\ No newline at end of file
+git clean -df .
diff --git a/src/api/rootfs/Dockerfile b/src/api/rootfs/Dockerfile
index d988c9451..6ff171844 100644
--- a/src/api/rootfs/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/api/rootfs/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:3.3
+FROM alpine:3.6
 
 RUN apk -U add ca-certificates && \
     rm -Rf /var/cache/apk/*
diff --git a/src/api/swagger/restapi/configure_monocular.go b/src/api/swagger/restapi/configure_monocular.go
index 53edfbea5..3c94003f8 100755
--- a/src/api/swagger/restapi/configure_monocular.go
+++ b/src/api/swagger/restapi/configure_monocular.go
@@ -44,7 +44,10 @@ func configureAPI(api *operations.MonocularAPI) http.Handler {
 	}
 
 	// configure the api here
-	data.UpdateCache(conf.Repos)
+	if err := data.UpdateCache(conf.Repos); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Can not configure repository cache %v\n", err)
+	}
+
 	chartsImplementation := cache.NewCachedCharts()
 	// Run foreground repository refresh
 	chartsImplementation.Refresh()