Deploy the rbac helm chart on Opensshift

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Deploying a Helm chart on an OpenShift cluster involves creating an instance of the Helm Release. This will instruct OpenShift’s Helm to deploy a chart that can contain various Kubernetes resources defined by the RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) requirements within the chart.

Here's a step-by-step guide along with a Pulumi TypeScript program that demonstrates how to deploy an RBAC Helm chart on OpenShift:

1. **Define the Helm chart to deploy**: You will need the Helm chart's repository, name, and version. For RBAC, the chart might include `Roles`, `RoleBindings`, `ClusterRoles`, `ClusterRoleBindings`, and associated Service Accounts that are necessary to correctly set up the RBAC permissions.

2. **Set up OpenShift cluster connection**: In a real use case, you’d provide a kubeconfig file or context that allows Pulumi to connect to your OpenShift cluster. In this example, we’ll assume that you have already set up your OpenShift environment and Pulumi will use the default kubeconfig context.

3. **Instantiate the Chart resource**: Use the `Chart` component from `@pulumi/kubernetes` to initiate the deployment of the RBAC Helm chart.

4. **Specify necessary configurations**: This includes selecting the correct namespace (if applicable) and passing any Helm values that are required for configuring the chart.

Below is a TypeScript program using Pulumi to deploy an RBAC Helm chart to an OpenShift cluster:

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

// Helm Chart name for the RBAC resources.
const rbacChartName = "your-rbac-chart";
// Repository where the RBAC chart is stored.
const rbacChartRepo = "https://charts.your-repo.com";
// Version of the RBAC chart.
const rbacChartVersion = "1.2.3";

const rbacHelmRelease = new k8s.helm.v3.Release("rbac-helm-release", {
    name: "rbac-helm-release",
    chart: rbacChartName,
    version: rbacChartVersion,
    repositoryOpts: {
        repo: rbacChartRepo,
    },
    namespace: "your-namespace", // Specify the namespace if needed.
    // Set Helm values that are required for your chart.
    values: {
        // ...
        // Example value (use actual keys/values required for your RBAC chart):
        // serviceAccountName: "my-service-account",
    },
});
```

This Pulumi program does the following:

- Imports the `@pulumi/kubernetes` library which allows you to work with Kubernetes resources.
- Sets variables to hold information about the RBAC Helm chart such as its name, repository, and version. Replace `"your-rbac-chart"`, `"https://charts.your-repo.com"`, and `"1.2.3"` with actual values appropriate to your chart.
- Creates a `Release` object which represents the Helm chart deployment on OpenShift. The release name is set to `"rbac-helm-release"`.
- Specifies the `repositoryOpts.repo` to point to the chart repository.
- If the chart needs to be deployed in a specific namespace, the `namespace` field is set accordingly.
- The `values` property is used to provide any configuration required by the Helm chart. You would replace the commented part with actual configuration keys and values needed by the RBAC chart.

Please replace the placeholders with actual values before running the program. Ensure your OpenShift and Pulumi CLI configurations are correctly set up to apply this deployment to the desired cluster.