Deploy the Wordress helm chart on Opensshift

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To deploy a WordPress Helm chart on OpenShift, we will use Pulumi's Kubernetes provider. Helm charts are an excellent way to package and deploy applications on Kubernetes, and Pulumi provides first-class support for managing Helm charts.

Here is how you can do it:

1. **Set up Pulumi**: Ensure you have Pulumi installed and configured for use with your Kubernetes cluster.
2. **Install the Pulumi Kubernetes Provider**: The Kubernetes provider plugin should be installed in your Pulumi environment.
3. **Write the Pulumi Program in TypeScript**: The program will define a Pulumi stack that deploys the WordPress Helm chart.

Below is a detailed Pulumi program that deploys the WordPress Helm chart to an OpenShift cluster:

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

// A Kubernetes namespace provides a mechanism to scope resources in a cluster.
// We create a dedicated namespace for our WordPress deployment.
const namespace = new k8s.core.v1.Namespace("wordpress-ns", {
    metadata: { name: "wordpress" }
});

// Deploying the WordPress Helm chart. We'll be using the Bitnami version of the WordPress Helm Chart
// which is a well-maintained and popular choice in the community.
const wordpress = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("wp-helm", {
    namespace: namespace.metadata.name,
    // You can specify a chart from a repository or a local path, here we're pulling Bitnami's chart.
    repo: "bitnami",
    chart: "wordpress",
    // Optionally, you can provide values to customize the Helms chart deployment.
    // Below are example values that you might consider setting. These are just for illustration,
    // and you'd typically configure these values to suit your requirements.
    values: {
        wordpressUsername: "user", // Replace with the desired username
        wordpressPassword: "password", // Replace with the desired password
        wordpressEmail: "user@example.com", // Replace with the desired email address
        // If you have a custom domain, configure it here
        // wordpressBlogName: "My Blog",
        // wordpressScheme: "http",
        // If you need to add any other custom configuration, specify it here.
        service: {
            type: "ClusterIP" // OpenShift usually handles routing through its own mechanisms, so ClusterIP is common
        },
        // OpenShift has its security context constraints, below configuration might not be needed or should
        // be adjusted according to your OpenShift cluster's SCC policies.
        securityContext: {
            enabled: false // This assumes the cluster is configured to automatically assign an SCC to the deployed pods.
        }
    }
}, { dependsOn: namespace });

// Export the endpoint as a stack output. To be able to access WordPress, you'd create a route in OpenShift
// that points to the service created by the Helm chart.
export const wordpressUrl = wordpress.getResourceProperty("v1/Service", "wp-helm-wordpress", "status").apply(status => {
    // The actual URL will depend on the hosting setup for OpenShift routes
    return `http://${status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname}/`;
});

```

This program does the following:
- Imports necessary Pulumi libraries.
- Creates a new Kubernetes namespace for the WordPress deployment.
- Deploys WordPress using the Bitnami WordPress chart from the Helm repository.
- Customizes the deployment with a set of values like the WordPress user, password, and email.
- Specifies `ClusterIP` for the service type as OpenShift handles external routing through its mechanisms.
- It comments out security context options because OpenShift has different security context constraints.
- Finally, it exports the URL which you could use to access the WordPress site through a web browser after you create a route in OpenShift.

**Please note** that you'd need to adjust values and configurations according to your OpenShift cluster settings and policies.

To leverage this Pulumi program, you should save it in a file (e.g., `index.ts`), then run `pulumi up` from the same directory to deploy your resources. The Pulumi CLI will guide you through the deployment process. Make sure you have the `kubectl` configured to point to your OpenShift cluster where you want to deploy WordPress.