Deploy the laravel-octane helm chart on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

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To deploy a Laravel Octane application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using a Helm chart, you will need to follow these steps:

Create a GKE cluster on which you can deploy your application.
Set up Helm in your local environment and ensure you can interact with your GKE cluster.
Deploy the Laravel Octane Helm chart to your GKE cluster.

Let's proceed with a Pulumi program in TypeScript that will create a GKE cluster. Once the cluster is up and running, you can then use Helm to deploy your Laravel Octane application.

Below is a detailed Pulumi TypeScript program that creates a GKE cluster. This includes:

Importing necessary Pulumi and Google Cloud packages.
Creating a GKE cluster with a specified name and configuration.
Exporting the cluster's name and Kubernetes configuration to be used with kubectl and Helm commands outside of the Pulumi program.

Please ensure you have set up Google Cloud credentials on your local machine and have the proper permissions to create GKE clusters in your GCP project.

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as gcp from "@pulumi/gcp";

// Create a GKE cluster for your Laravel Octane application to be deployed to.
const cluster = new gcp.container.Cluster("laravel-octane-cluster", {
    initialNodeCount: 1,
    minMasterVersion: "latest",
    nodeVersion: "latest",
    nodeConfig: {
        machineType: "e2-medium",  // Choose an appropriate machine type for your Laravel application.
        oauthScopes: [
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring",
        ],
    },
});

// Export the Cluster name and the Kubeconfig to access the cluster with kubectl.
export const clusterName = cluster.name;
export const kubeconfig = pulumi.all([cluster.name, cluster.endpoint, cluster.masterAuth]).apply(([name, endpoint, masterAuth]) => {
    const context = `${gcp.config.project}_${gcp.config.zone}_${name}`;
    return `apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: ${masterAuth.clusterCaCertificate}
    server: https://${endpoint}
  name: ${context}
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: ${context}
    user: ${context}
  name: ${context}
current-context: ${context}
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: ${context}
  user:
    auth-provider:
      config:
        cmd-args: config config-helper --format=json
        cmd-path: gcloud
        expiry-key: '{.credential.token_expiry}'
        token-key: '{.credential.access_token}'
      name: gcp
`;
});

// Note on context: Before using Helm to deploy Laravel Octane,
// ensure you've configured kubectl with the correct context using this kubeconfig.

To use this Pulumi program:

Save the above code to a file, such as index.ts.
Run pulumi up to preview and create the resources.
After the cluster is provisioned, configure kubectl with the kubeconfig emitted by Pulumi.
Install Helm and add the repository for Laravel Octane, if available.
Use Helm to deploy your Laravel Octane Helm chart to the cluster created by Pulumi.

Here are some Helm commands that you'd typically run after the cluster is set up (these are not part of the Pulumi program):

# Install Helm, if it's not already installed.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash

# Add the repository containing the Laravel Octane Helm chart.
helm repo add laravel-octane-chart-repo <URL_TO_OCTANE_HELM_CHART_REPO>

# Update your local Helm chart repository cache.
helm repo update

# Install the Laravel Octane Helm chart onto your GKE cluster.
helm install <RELEASE_NAME> laravel-octane-chart-repo/laravel-octane

Replace <RELEASE_NAME> with a name for your Helm release and <URL_TO_OCTANE_HELM_CHART_REPO> with the URL to the Helm chart repository for Laravel Octane if it exists.

Please make sure to review and modify the machine type, node count, and other settings in the Pulumi program to suit the needs of your Laravel Octane deployment.