Deploy the jitsi helm chart on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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To deploy the Jitsi Helm chart on an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, you will need to complete the following steps:

1. **Set up an AKS cluster**: Before you can deploy any applications to AKS, you must first create an AKS cluster. You'll create an instance of `ProvisionedCluster` from the `azure-native` provider, which represents the Kubernetes cluster within your Azure infrastructure.

2. **Install the Helm Chart for Jitsi**: Once the AKS cluster is provisioned, you will use the `Chart` resource from the `kubernetes` provider to deploy Jitsi using Helm. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies deployment of applications and services.

Here is a Pulumi program in TypeScript that illustrates the steps to create an AKS cluster and deploy the Jitsi Helm chart:

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

// Step 1: Set up the AKS cluster
// You need to create a resource group and the AKS cluster itself.

// Create an Azure Resource Group
const resourceGroup = new azure.resources.ResourceGroup("myResourceGroup");

// Now create the AKS cluster
const cluster = new azure.containerservice.ManagedCluster("myAKSCluster", {
    resourceGroupName: resourceGroup.name,
    // Define the AKS cluster configuration here
    // Refer to the following documentation for `ManagedCluster` properties:
    // https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure-native/api-docs/containerservice/managedcluster/
});

// Obtain the Kubeconfig after the cluster is created to configure the Kubernetes provider
const creds = pulumi.all([cluster.name, resourceGroup.name]).apply(([name, rgName]) =>
    azure.containerservice.listManagedClusterUserCredentials({
        resourceName: name,
        resourceGroupName: rgName,
    }),
);

const kubeconfig = creds.kubeconfigs[0].value.apply(c => Buffer.from(c, 'base64').toString());

// Step 2: Deploy the Jitsi Helm chart into the AKS cluster

// Create a Kubernetes provider instance using the kubeconfig obtained from AKS
const k8sProvider = new k8s.Provider("k8sProvider", {
    kubeconfig: kubeconfig,
});

// Deploy the Jitsi Helm chart using the created Kubernetes provider
const jitsiChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("jitsi", {
    chart: "jitsi",
    // You need to specify the Jitsi Helm chart repository here
    // and potentially custom values for your deployment using `values` property.
    // For the official Jitsi Helm chart, you can refer to the following documentation:
    // https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/jitsi/jitsi
}, { provider: k8sProvider });

// Exporting the public URL of Jitsi, assuming the chart provides a LoadBalancer service
export const jitsiURL = jitsiChart.getResourceProperty("v1/Service", "jitsi-web", "status")
    .apply(status => status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip || status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname);
```

In this program, a new resource group and an AKS cluster are created first. Then using the AKS cluster credentials, a new instance of the Kubernetes provider is configured. This provider is used to deploy the Jitsi Helm chart to the AKS cluster.

Please note that Helm charts typically have customizable values that you can specify in the `values` property of the `Chart` resource. These values allow you to configure aspects of the chart such as service types, resource limits, and any application-specific settings. You will need to consult the Jitsi Helm chart documentation to understand which values you may want or need to overwrite for your specific deployment.

After deploying your Helm chart, you can export the resulting service's public endpoint from your Pulumi stack and use this to access your Jitsi instance.

This code assumes that you already have Pulumi installed and configured with the necessary cloud provider credentials and that Helm has Jitsi added to its repositories. Prior to running this Pulumi program, check that all prerequisites are fulfilled.

Remember that when you run the Pulumi program, it will perform the deployment according to the defined resources and properties. The `pulumi up` command will create resources and apply changes to the cloud provider and Kubernetes. After the program completes, you can use Pulumi's output to interact with the deployed resources.