Deploy the toxiproxy helm chart on Digital Ocean Kubernetes Service

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Deploying a Helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster typically involves several steps: configuring cloud provider credentials, creating a Kubernetes cluster (if one does not already exist), and deploying the Helm chart to the cluster.

In the case of DigitalOcean, we'll use the DigitalOcean provider for Pulumi to create a Kubernetes cluster and then deploy the Toxiproxy Helm chart to it. Toxiproxy is a proxy that simulates network and system conditions for chaos and resilience testing.

Below is a Pulumi program written in TypeScript that performs the following actions:

1. **Create a DigitalOcean Kubernetes Cluster**: We'll define a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster's configuration including the region, version, and node pool specifications.
2. **Install the Toxiproxy Helm Chart**: Once we have a Kubernetes cluster, we will use the Pulumi Kubernetes provider to deploy the Toxiproxy Helm chart to it.

First, ensure you have Pulumi installed and configured with the necessary credentials for DigitalOcean. The program assumes you have already set up your Pulumi configuration with the appropriate DigitalOcean access token.

Here's a Pulumi TypeScript program to deploy the Toxiproxy Helm chart to a Digital Ocean Kubernetes cluster:

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

// Create a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster
const cluster = new digitalocean.KubernetesCluster("do-cluster", {
    region: digitalocean.Regions.NYC1,
    version: "latest", // Specify the version you want to use
    nodePool: {
        name: "default",
        size: digitalocean.DropletSlugs.DropletS2VCPU2GB, // Example Droplet type
        nodeCount: 2, // Define the number of nodes in the node pool
    },
});

// Create a Kubernetes provider instance that uses our cluster from above.
const k8sProvider = new kubernetes.Provider("k8s-provider", {
    kubeconfig: cluster.kubeConfigs[0].rawConfig,
});

// Deploy the Toxiproxy Helm chart to the cluster using the Kubernetes provider
const chart = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart("toxiproxy-chart", {
    chart: "toxiproxy",
    version: "2.1.0", // Specify the chart version you want to deploy
    namespace: "default", // Define the namespace to deploy into
    // Define any custom values for the chart deployment
    values: {
        // Custom values for the Helm chart can be specified here (if needed)
    },
}, { provider: k8sProvider });

// Export the cluster's kubeconfig
export const kubeconfig = cluster.kubeConfigs[0].rawConfig;

```
In this program, we have:

- Used the DigitalOcean provider to create a Kubernetes cluster with a specified droplet size and node count.
- Defined a Kubernetes provider in Pulumi that communicates with our newly-created DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster.
- Deployed the Toxiproxy Helm chart using the Kubernetes provider.

Remember, you will need to specify the version for your Kubernetes cluster if you do not want to use the latest version. Additionally, if the Toxiproxy Helm chart requires custom values, you can supply them in the `values` field under the chart definition.

You should be able to run this Pulumi program using `pulumi up`. This command will provision the resources as defined and output the resulting kubeconfig, which you can use to interact with your Kubernetes cluster directly via `kubectl`.