Deploy the rdfox helm chart on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

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Deploying the `rdfox` Helm chart on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) involves several steps, including setting up a GKE cluster and installing the Helm chart. For this, we'll use Pulumi with its TypeScript SDK to provision the necessary cloud resources.

First, let's initialize our GKE cluster. We will use the `google-native.container.v1.Cluster` resource from Pulumi's Google Native provider which allows us to create and manage GKE clusters. Creating a GKE cluster includes specifying the zone for the cluster, the number of nodes, the machine type for those nodes, and other various settings for a Kubernetes cluster.

Once our GKE cluster is ready, we will then use the `kubernetes.helm.sh/v3.Release` resource to deploy the `rdfox` Helm chart. This resource will install the Helm chart into our GKE cluster.

Here is the TypeScript program that accomplishes this:

```typescript
import * as gcp from '@pulumi/gcp';
import * as kubernetes from '@pulumi/kubernetes';

// Create a GKE cluster
const cluster = new gcp.container.Cluster("gke-cluster", {
  initialNodeCount: 3,
  nodeVersion: "latest",
  minMasterVersion: "latest",
  nodeConfig: {
    machineType: "n1-standard-1", // You can choose the machine type that suits your needs
    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 kubeconfig to access the cluster
export const kubeconfig = cluster.name.apply(name => {
  const config = gcp.container.getCluster({
    name: name,
    location: cluster.location,
  });
  return `apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: ${config.masterAuth[0].clusterCaCertificate}
    server: https://${config.endpoint}
  name: gke-cluster
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: gke-cluster
    user: gke-cluster
  name: gke-cluster
current-context: gke-cluster
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: gke-cluster
  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
`;
});

// Create a provider for the created cluster
const k8sProvider = new kubernetes.Provider("gke-k8s", {
  kubeconfig: kubeconfig,
});

// Install the rdfox Helm chart
const helmChart = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart("rdfox-chart", {
  chart: "rdfox",
  // If the Chart requires a specific namespace, you can uncomment and specify the namespace
  // namespace: "rdfox-namespace",
  // Assuming that `rdfox` is present in one of the default Helm chart repositories
  // Otherwise, you should specify a `repo` argument with the URL to the repository
}, { provider: k8sProvider });

// Export the Helm chart deployment name
export const helmDeploymentName = helmChart.status.name;
```

The above program creates a new GKE cluster with 3 nodes using the `n1-standard-1` machine type, which is just an example. You should choose the machine type according to your workload requirements. Once the cluster is set up, we export the kubeconfig that will be used by the Kubernetes provider to communicate with our cluster.

Next, we install the `rdfox` Helm chart into the cluster. Before running this program, you should ensure that the `rdfox` Helm chart is available in a Helm chart repository or specify the `repo` property with the appropriate URL to the chart.

To deploy this Pulumi program:

1. Save this code to a file with a `.ts` extension, for example `deployRDFox.ts`.
2. Ensure you are authenticated with Google Cloud and have Pulumi installed and configured.
3. Run `pulumi up` from the command line in the directory containing the file.

This will provision the resources as per the program and output the `kubeconfig` and helm deployment name, which you can then use to interact with your GKE cluster and the deployed Helm chart.