Deploy the gnocchi helm chart on Kubernetes

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Deploying a Helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster involves several steps which can be managed easily with Pulumi. Here's a detailed explanation followed by a TypeScript program that accomplishes this goal.

First, we need to ensure that our Kubernetes cluster is ready and that we have the necessary access details to interact with it (e.g., kubeconfig file, context). This is generally outside the scope of what Pulumi does; however, Pulumi uses this information to manage resources on the Kubernetes cluster.

Once the cluster is ready, we use Pulumi to declare our desired state, which in this case includes deploying the gnocchi Helm chart. We use Pulumi's Kubernetes provider to accomplish this. The `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` class allows us to define a Helm chart resource and Pulumi takes care of communicating with the Helm client to deploy it.

Here's how you would do it in TypeScript:

```typescript
import * as k8s from "@pulumi/kubernetes";

// Create an instance of the Chart class to deploy the gnocchi helm chart.
// We assume here that you have already configured Pulumi with access to your Kubernetes cluster.
const gnocchiChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("gnocchi", {
    chart: "gnocchi",
    // You can specify the chart version to deploy, e.g., { version: "X.Y.Z" }.
    // If the chart requires custom values, you can supply them as an object below:
    // values: { /* custom chart values */ },
    // Specify which repository the chart can be found in. If it's a custom repository,
    // you need to add the `repo` key like below:
    // repo: "http://my-chart-repo.org/charts",
});

export const chartName = gnocchiChart.metadata.name;
```

In the above program:

- We import the Kubernetes package from Pulumi.
- We create a new Helm chart resource using the `Chart` class.
- We specify the chart name (`"gnocchi"`). If the chart is not from the default Helm repo, you'd need to specify the `repo` option with the URL of the Helm chart repository.
- If needed, we can supply custom values and version for the Helm chart.
- Lastly, we export the name of the chart for easy reference. This is useful if you want to grab the generated name that Pulumi assigns to your Helm chart deployment.

To actually deploy this, you would save the above code to a file (for example, `index.ts`), ensure that you have Pulumi installed and configured for your Kubernetes cluster, and then run `pulumi up`.

Make sure that the Helm chart name and any other required parameters like `repo`, `values`, or `version` match those expected by the gnocchi Helm chart. If you have a `values.yaml` file with configurations for gnocchi, you can include it in the `values` parameter as an object.

Remember to review and adjust the properties of the `Chart` resource to match the specific requirements and configurations needed by the gnocchi Helm chart.