Deploy the ibm-datapower-dev helm chart on Linode Kubernetes Engine

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To deploy the `ibm-datapower-dev` Helm chart on a Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) using Pulumi, you will need to do the following steps:

1. Set up the Pulumi Kubernetes provider to connect to your LKE cluster. Pulumi uses a kubeconfig file to connect to the Kubernetes cluster, so you would need to ensure that the environment where Pulumi is running has access to the kubeconfig file for your LKE cluster.

2. Use the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource type to deploy the Helm chart to your cluster. This Pulumi resource is equivalent to running `helm install` or `helm upgrade` on the command line and allows for customization such as setting chart values, specifying a chart version, or adding custom transformations.

Here's a detailed breakdown of the program, which includes:

- Importing necessary Pulumi and Kubernetes packages.
- Creating a Kubernetes provider for Linode.
- Deploying the `ibm-datapower-dev` Helm chart using the `Chart` resource.

Before we start with the actual Pulumi code, make sure to install the necessary Pulumi SDK for your programming environment and have access to your Linode Kubernetes cluster's kubeconfig file. For TypeScript, you should also have `node` and `npm` or `yarn` installed to manage packages.

Now let's walk through the Pulumi program in TypeScript:

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

// This part assumes you have your kubeconfig file at the default location (`~/.kube/config`)
// or you have the KUBECONFIG environment variable set.
const clusterConfig = new pulumi.Config("linode-k8s");
const kubeconfig = clusterConfig.requireSecret("kubeconfig");

// Create a Kubernetes provider instance that uses our kubeconfig.
const provider = new kubernetes.Provider("linode-k8s-provider", {
    kubeconfig: kubeconfig,
});

// Deploy the `ibm-datapower-dev` Helm chart onto the LKE cluster.
const datapower = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart("ibm-datapower-dev", {
    chart: "ibm-datapower-dev",
    // Replace with the repository which hosts the ibm-datapower-dev chart.
    // Example: `https://charts.example.com/`
    // Note that you might need to use the `fetchOpts` to specify the Helm repository authentication details.
    repo: "repo-url",
    version: "chart-version",
    values: {
        // Specify any custom values needed for the Helm chart.
        // Example: service: { type: "LoadBalancer" }
    },
}, { provider });

// Export the endpoint of the Datapower service. This assumes the chart exposes a LoadBalancer service type.
export const datapowerEndpoint = datapower.getResourceProperty(
    "v1/Service",
    "ibm-datapower-dev-service",
    "status",
    "loadBalancer"
).apply(status => status.ingress[0].ip);
```

Replace `repo-url` with the URL of the Helm repository that houses the `ibm-datapower-dev` Helm chart, and `chart-version` with the specific version of the chart you want to install.

This program sets up the connection to the Linode Kubernetes cluster and deploys the `ibm-datapower-dev` Helm chart. We specify the Kubernetes provider to ensure that resources are being created in your LKE cluster. Lastly, we export the IP address of the LoadBalancer service created by the Helm chart so you can access your IBM Datapower instance.

Note that you might need to adjust the exported properties based on the actual service specification in the Helm chart, as Helm charts can define services with different names or types.

To run this Pulumi program, you would execute it using the Pulumi CLI after setting up your Pulumi project and stack. You should also ensure your Linode token and kubeconfig are set up in your environment or Pulumi stack configuration, so that Pulumi can authenticate with your Linode account and access the cluster.