1. Deploy the portal helm chart on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

    TypeScript

    To deploy a Helm chart onto a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster using Pulumi, we first need to ensure that a GKE cluster is set up and reachable. After the cluster is running, we can then use Pulumi to deploy the Helm chart to the cluster.

    Below, I will guide you through the process in two stages: first, we'll create the GKE cluster, and second, we'll deploy the Helm chart onto that cluster.

    Creating a GKE Cluster

    We are going to use the gcp.container.Cluster resource to create a new GKE cluster. This resource requires properties such as the name of the cluster, the location, and the node configuration.

    Deploying the Helm Chart

    Once the GKE cluster is up and running, we can deploy the Helm chart to it using the kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart resource from Pulumi's Kubernetes provider. This resource allows us to specify the chart version, values, and other configurations to customize our installation.

    Prerequisites

    Before running the program, we need the following:

    • Pulumi CLI installed and set up.
    • Access to a Google Cloud account and a project configured with billing enabled.
    • Google Cloud SDK (gcloud) installed and configured for the proper project and account.
    • Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) installed.
    • Helm 3.x installed if we need to fetch dependencies or configure the chart locally.

    Now, let's start with the TypeScript program to perform these tasks:

    import * as gcp from "@pulumi/gcp"; import * as kubernetes from "@pulumi/kubernetes"; // Create a GKE cluster const cluster = new gcp.container.Cluster("portal-cluster", { initialNodeCount: 2, minMasterVersion: "latest", nodeVersion: "latest", nodeConfig: { machineType: "n1-standard-1", oauthScopes: [ "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring" ], }, }); // Export the Cluster name and Kubeconfig export const clusterName = cluster.name; export const kubeconfig = cluster.endpoint.apply(endpoint => { return `apiVersion: v1 clusters: - cluster: certificate-authority-data: ${cluster.masterAuth.clusterCaCertificate} server: https://${endpoint} name: ${cluster.name} contexts: - context: cluster: ${cluster.name} user: ${cluster.name} name: ${cluster.name} current-context: ${cluster.name} kind: Config preferences: {} users: - name: ${cluster.name} user: auth-provider: config: cmd-args: config config-helper --format=json cmd-path: gcloud expiry-key: '{.credential.token_expiry}' token-key: '{.credential.access_token}' name: gcp `; }); // Create a Kubernetes provider instance that uses our cluster from above. const k8sProvider = new kubernetes.Provider("k8s-provider", { kubeconfig: kubeconfig, }); // Deploy a Helm chart to the cluster const portalHelmChart = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart("portal", { chart: "portal-chart", // The name of the chart version: "1.0.0", // The version of the chart fetchOpts: { repo: "https://charts.example.com/", // Replace with your Helm chart's repository }, }, { provider: k8sProvider }); // Export the Helm chart deployment name export const portalHelmDeploymentName = portalHelmChart.getResource("v1/Service", "portal-chart");

    In the above program:

    1. We create a GKE cluster with two nodes using gcp.container.Cluster.
    2. Once the cluster is created, we build the kubeconfig needed to access the cluster programmatically from Pulumi.
    3. We create a Kubernetes provider using the kubeconfig, which allows Pulumi to interact with the newly created GKE cluster.
    4. We then use kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart to deploy the portal helm chart to the GKE cluster, specifying the chart and version. Replace "portal-chart" and the repo property with the name and location of your Helm chart.

    To run this Pulumi program, save it in a file with a .ts extension, e.g., deployHelmChart.ts, and then execute it using the Pulumi CLI:

    pulumi up

    This command will provision the GKE cluster and deploy the Helm chart as described in the TypeScript program. Make sure you have selected or created a Pulumi stack where this program's resources will live. If this is your first time running a Pulumi program, the CLI will guide you through the process of creating a new stack.