Deploy the minio-standalone helm chart on Opensshift

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To deploy the MinIO standalone Helm chart on OpenShift, we'll use Pulumi's Kubernetes provider. The `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource allows us to deploy a Helm chart as part of our Pulumi application. Helm charts are a great way to bundle Kubernetes resources and MinIO is a popular object storage solution that can be easily deployed with its Helm chart.

Below is a program written in TypeScript that shows how to deploy the MinIO Helm chart on an OpenShift cluster. This program assumes you have an OpenShift cluster configured and that your `kubeconfig` is set up correctly to connect to your cluster.

Here's the step-by-step process and code:

1. Install the necessary Pulumi package, if you have not done so already. The package required for Kubernetes is `@pulumi/kubernetes`.

2. Import the Pulumi Kubernetes package in your TypeScript program.

3. Create a new instance of `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart`, specifying the name you wish to assign to the Helm chart (`minio` in this example), the chart repo (usually a URL where the chart is hosted), and any values you wish to override.

4. Optionally, you can provide the `namespace` parameter if you want to deploy the Helm chart in a specific namespace.

Now, let's see how this looks in code:

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

// Create a MinIO Helm chart resource in the "default" namespace.
const minioChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("minio", {
    // Usually MinIO Helm chart is available in its own repository,
    // so you would add that repository to your Helm repos separately
    // and then specify the chart name here.
    // For this example, assuming you have already added the MinIO repository
    // as "minioRepo", the chart should be named "minio/minio".
    chart: "minio/minio",
    version: "latest", // Specify the chart version you wish to deploy.
    
    // Define the values to be overwritten.
    // Refer to the MinIO chart for the available options.
    values: {
        accessKey: 'YOUR_MINIO_ACCESS_KEY', // Replace with your desired access key.
        secretKey: 'YOUR_MINIO_SECRET_KEY', // Replace with your desired secret key.
        // ...include other customization values as needed...
    },
    
    // Ensure you're deploying the chart into an OpenShift project (namespace).
    namespace: "default", // Change to a different namespace if needed.
    
    // You may need additional configurations depending on your OpenShift setup
    // and the MinIO chart's requirements.
});

// Export the MinIO service URL so we can easily access it.
export const minioServiceUrl = minioChart.getResourceProperty("v1/Service", "minio-minio-svc", "status").apply(status => status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname);
```

In the above program:
- `chart` specifies the name of the chart. It should be noted that you'll need to add the MinIO Helm chart repository to your Helm configuration and reference the chart with `minio/minio`.
- `values` allows us to configure the chart's parameters. You should replace `'YOUR_MINIO_ACCESS_KEY'` and `'YOUR_MINIO_SECRET_KEY'` with the actual values you'd prefer to use for your MinIO deployment. There are many other parameters you might want to override, which can be found in the chart's documentation.
- `namespace` is set to `"default"`. This is where your chart will be installed. Make sure to change it if you have a particular project or namespace where you want to deploy MinIO.
- `minioServiceUrl` exports the endpoint of the MinIO service. Once the service is up and running, you can use this URL to interact with your MinIO instance.

Please note that for a real-world deployment, you should manage sensitive data like `accessKey` and `secretKey` with secret management tools like Kubernetes Secrets, and you should not hard-code them into your Pulumi program.

After writing the code, you would run `pulumi up` in your CLI to start the deployment. If everything is set up correctly, Pulumi will deploy the MinIO Helm chart to your OpenShift cluster.