Deploy the ipmitool helm chart on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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To deploy the `ipmitool` Helm chart on an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using Pulumi, you would follow these high-level steps:

1. **Set Up AKS Cluster**: Firstly, you need to set up an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. You'll use Pulumi's Azure Native provider to provision the AKS cluster.
2. **Install the Helm Chart**: Once the AKS cluster is up and running, you will install the Helm chart. For this, you'll use the Pulumi Kubernetes provider which offers the `Chart` resource type for Helm charts.

In the following program, I'll guide you on writing a Pulumi TypeScript program that sets up an AKS cluster and deploys the `ipmitool` Helm chart onto it. Note that the actual `ipmitool` Helm chart details like its repository URL or its version would be necessary if you are using a real chart. As an example, I'll use placeholders for those values.

Before you begin, ensure you have installed the required Pulumi CLI and have the necessary cloud provider configurations set up properly.

Here is the step-by-step Pulumi TypeScript program:

```typescript
import * as azureNative from "@pulumi/azure-native";
import * as k8s from "@pulumi/kubernetes";
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";

// Create the AKS cluster
const resourceGroupName = new azureNative.resources.ResourceGroup("resourceGroup", {
  resourceGroupName: "aksResourceGroup",
  location: "WestUS", // Replace with the desired Azure location
});

const cluster = new azureNative.containerservice.ManagedCluster("aksCluster", {
  resourceGroupName: resourceGroupName.name,
  agentPoolProfiles: [{
    count: 3, // Desired node count for your AKS cluster
    vmSize: "Standard_DS2_v2", // VM type for your AKS nodes
    name: "agentpool", // Name for your AKS node pool
  }],
  dnsPrefix: "akspulumi", // Replace with a DNS prefix of your choice
  kubernetesVersion: "1.20.9", // Specify the desired Kubernetes version
  location: resourceGroupName.location, // The AKS cluster will be created in the same location as the resource group
});

// Obtain the KubeConfig after the cluster is created
const creds = pulumi.all([resourceGroupName.name, cluster.name]).apply(([rgName, clusterName]) => 
  azureNative.containerservice.listManagedClusterUserCredentials({
    resourceGroupName: rgName,
    resourceName: clusterName,
  }));

// Set up a K8s provider by using the generated KubeConfig
const k8sProvider = new k8s.Provider("k8sProvider", {
  kubeconfig: creds.apply(creds => Buffer.from(creds.kubeconfigs[0].value, 'base64').toString()),
});

// Deploy the ipmitool Helm chart using Pulumi's k8s provider
const chart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("ipmitool-chart", {
  chart: "ipmitool", // The name of the chart
  version: "1.0.0", // The version of the chart
  fetchOpts: {
    repo: "http://example.com/helm-charts", // The repository URL where the chart is hosted
  },
}, { provider: k8sProvider });

export const kubeconfig = creds.apply(creds => Buffer.from(creds.kubeconfigs[0].value, 'base64').toString());
```

This program does the following:

- It defines a new Azure resource group to contain all the resources.
- It provisions an AKS cluster within the defined resource group with a specified node count, VM size, DNS prefix, and Kubernetes version.
- Once the cluster is provisioned, it retrieves the credentials needed to communicate with this new cluster using Pulumi's dynamic provider feature.
- With those credentials, it creates a new instance of the Pulumi Kubernetes provider configured to talk to the newly created AKS cluster.
- With the new Kubernetes provider, it deploys the `ipmitool` Helm chart. Here, you would replace the placeholders for `repo` and other chart details with the actual values.
- In the end, it exports the `kubeconfig` to allow you to interact with the cluster using `kubectl` command outside of Pulumi.

Remember, you should replace the fake URL `http://example.com/helm-charts` with the actual URL where the `ipmitool` Helm chart repository is hosted. Also, ensure that the versions of the Azure and Kubernetes Pulumi providers specified in the `package.json` file are compatible with the versions used in your project.