Deploy the mqtt-connector helm chart on Digital Ocean Kubernetes Service

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To deploy the MQTT Connector Helm Chart on the Digital Ocean Kubernetes Service, we'll use Pulumi to manage the infrastructure. We'll walk through the steps:

1. We'll create a Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean using Pulumi's DigitalOcean provider.
2. We'll install the Helm Chart for the MQTT Connector onto the DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service (DOKS) cluster using Pulumi's Kubernetes provider.

Here's what you'll need before we start:
- A Pulumi account and the Pulumi CLI installed on your machine, logged in to manage the state of your infrastructure.
- A DigitalOcean account with an API token that you'll use with the Pulumi DigitalOcean provider to provision resources on DigitalOcean.
- Helm CLI installed on your machine if you need to customize Helm Charts or values manually.

Now, let's write the TypeScript program to deploy the MQTT Connector on DOKS:

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

// Create a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster
const cluster = new digitalocean.KubernetesCluster("mqtt-cluster", {
    // Specify your region, the version of Kubernetes and the name of your cluster
    region: digitalocean.Regions.NYC1,
    version: "latest",  // or specify a specific version of Kubernetes
    nodePool: {
        name: "mqtt-pool",
        size: digitalocean.DropletSlugs.DropletS1VCPU2GB,  // Choose the size that suits your needs
        nodeCount: 2,  // Choose the number of nodes in the node pool
    },
});

// Export the cluster's kubeconfig
export const kubeconfig = cluster.kubeConfigs[0].rawConfig;

// Create a provider to install the Helm chart on the Kubernetes cluster
const k8sProvider = new k8s.Provider("mqtt-provider", {
    kubeconfig: cluster.kubeConfigs[0].rawConfig,
});

// Deploy the mqtt-connector Helm chart
const mqttConnectorChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("mqtt-connector", {
    // Here you specify the details about the Helm chart you want to deploy
    // Refer to the particular MQTT connector Helm chart's documentation for configuration details
    chart: "mqtt-connector",
    version: "1.0.0", // Use the version number of the MQTT Connector chart
    repositoryOpts: {
        repo: "https://helm.your-mqtt-connector-repo.com", // Replace with the actual Helm repo URL
    },
}, { provider: k8sProvider });

// Alternatively, if you have customized values, you can pass a 'values' object to the Chart
// For example:
// const mqttConnectorChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("mqtt-connector", {
//     chart: "mqtt-connector",
//     repositoryOpts: {
//         repo: "https://helm.your-mqtt-connector-repo.com",
//     },
//     values: {
//         // Custom values here
//     },
// }, { provider: k8sProvider });

// Export the Helm Chart's status and resources
export const mqttConnectorStatus = mqttConnectorChart.status;
export const mqttConnectorResources = mqttConnectorChart.getResource("v1/Service", "mqtt-connector");
```

In the program above, we perform the following steps:

- We create a Kubernetes cluster within DigitalOcean by instantiating the `KubernetesCluster` resource from the DigitalOcean provider. Here, we specify the region, Kubernetes version, nodePool details like size and the number of nodes.

- We export the `kubeconfig`, which allows us to connect to the Kubernetes cluster we created. The kubeconfig is critical for Pulumi and any clients (e.g., `kubectl`) to interact with the Kubernetes cluster.

- We create a Pulumi Kubernetes provider to manage Kubernetes resources and install Helm charts on the DOKS cluster. This provider utilizes the kubeconfig we exported from the cluster.

- We deploy the MQTT Connector using the Pulumi Helm Chart resource. We specify the chart name, version, and repository options. There may be additional values you can set depending on the specifics of the MQTT Connector Helm Chart you are deploying.

- We export the Helm Chart status for us to know the deployment status, and also export a service resource created by the Helm chart so we know how to access the MQTT Connector once deployed.

To run this program, you would navigate to the directory containing your Pulumi program and run `pulumi up`. This command prompts Pulumi to perform an update, creating or updating resources as needed to reach the desired state described by your code.

Please note that you'll need to provide the actual Helm chart repository URL and possibly the chart version for the MQTT Connector. You may also need to add custom Helm values depending on the configuration required for your specific use case.