Deploy the carbonio helm chart on Opensshift

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To deploy the Carbonio Helm chart on an OpenShift cluster, you'll need to use the Pulumi Kubernetes provider and its `helm.v3.Chart` resource, which allows you to deploy Helm charts.

Here's a step-by-step explanation followed by the Pulumi TypeScript program:

1. **Set Up OpenShift Credentials**: Ensure that you have access to your OpenShift cluster and the `kubeconfig` file is correctly set up on your local machine. Pulumi uses the `kubeconfig` file to interact with your Kubernetes cluster.

2. **Install Pulumi Kubernetes Provider**: The Pulumi Kubernetes provider is used to interact with your Kubernetes cluster and manage resources.

3. **Create a New Pulumi Project**: Initialize a new Pulumi project in TypeScript.

4. **Define the Carbonio Helm Chart Resource**: Use the `helm.v3.Chart` resource to specify the details of the Carbonio Helm chart you wish to deploy, including the repository URL, the chart name, version, and any configurations (`values`) you might need.

5. **Deploy the Project**: Run `pulumi up` to deploy your Pulumi stack. This will apply the specified Helm chart onto your OpenShift cluster.

Below is the TypeScript program demonstrating this process:

```typescript
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as kubernetes from "@pulumi/kubernetes";

// Step 1: Instantiate a Kubernetes provider instance that will use the context from the local kubeconfig.
const provider = new kubernetes.Provider("openshift-provider", {
    kubeconfig: process.env.KUBECONFIG, // Make sure KUBECONFIG is set in your environment variables
});

// Step 2: Define the Helm Chart for Carbonio.
// You would need the exact chart name and optionally the version, and any custom values you want to provide.
const carbonioChart = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart("carbonio", {
    // Assuming 'carbonio' is the name of the Helm chart, and it's located in a Helm repository you have access to.
    // Provide the actual chart name, version, and repo URL.
    chart: "carbonio",
    version: "1.2.3", // Replace with the version of the chart you want to deploy
    fetchOpts: { 
        repo: "https://charts.example.com/", // Replace with the URL of the Helm repository
    },
    // If the chart requires specific values, you can provide them using the `values` property.
    values: {
        // Specify your values here. For example:
        // serviceType: "ClusterIP",
        // replicas: 3,
    } 
}, { provider: provider });

// Export the base URL for the Carbonio instance managed by the Helm chart.
// You would replace 'carbonio-service' with the actual service name that gets created by the Helm chart.
export const carbonioUrl = carbonioChart.getResourceProperty("v1/Service", "carbonio-service", "status").apply(status => status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname);

// Deploy the project with `pulumi up`.
```

To run this Pulumi program, follow these steps:
1. Install Pulumi and set up the Pulumi CLI.
2. Use `pulumi new typescript` to start a new TypeScript project.
3. Replace the content of `index.ts` with the above code snippet.
4. Make sure you have your OpenShift cluster's `kubeconfig` file set up properly.
5. Run `pulumi up` to create the resources on your OpenShift cluster.

Please note that you have to replace placeholders like `https://charts.example.com/` with the actual Helm repository containing the Carbonio chart and provide the correct chart name and version.

This Pulumi program creates a Helm `Chart` resource using the Pulumi Kubernetes provider. By setting the appropriate values, you tell Pulumi to deploy the Carbonio chart to your OpenShift cluster based on the configuration you've specified.