Deploy the secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp helm chart on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Deploying the `secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp` helm chart on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) involves several steps: creating an AKS cluster, installing the Helm CLI, adding the necessary Helm repository, and finally deploying the chart onto the AKS cluster. Below, I'll outline the Pulumi program that performs these tasks using TypeScript.

First, we will create an AKS cluster using the `ProvisionedCluster` Pulumi resource from the `azure-native` provider. Once the cluster is provisioned, we'll use Pulumi's native support for Helm charts to deploy the `secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp`.

Note: The `secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp` Helm chart is typically used with a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, as it is a driver that allows secrets stored in Google Cloud Secret Manager to be accessed as files mounted in pods running on GKE. However, for the purpose of following your request, we'll provide code for deploying this Helm chart on AKS, but keep in mind that this might not be the intended use case, and obtaining the actual functionality of Google Cloud service on an Azure cluster would require additional setup and configurations that go beyond the helm chart deployment.

Before running the Pulumi program, you need to ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
- Pulumi CLI installed and properly configured with your Azure account.
- Azure CLI installed and logged in to your Azure account to manage the AKS cluster.
- Helm CLI installed for chart management.

Here's how you can define the AKS cluster and deploy the Helm chart using Pulumi:

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

const resourceGroupName = new azureNative.resources.ResourceGroup("myResourceGroup");

const aksCluster = new azureNative.hybridcontainerservice.ProvisionedCluster("myAksCluster", {
    resourceGroupName: resourceGroupName.name,
    location: "East US",
    // Define other necessary properties based on your requirements like node size, count etc.
    properties: {
        // Properties object that defines your AKS cluster characteristics.
        // In a real use case, you would define node pools, networking, and other cluster settings here.
    }
});

// When the cluster is created, we retrieve its kubeconfig.
const kubeconfig = aksCluster.kubeconfig.apply(kubeconfig => {
    const context = kubeconfig.contexts[0].name;
    const cluster = kubeconfig.clusters[0].cluster;
    return `
apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: ${cluster["certificate-authority-data"]}
    server: ${cluster.server}
  name: ${context}
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: ${context}
    user: ${context}
  name: ${context}
current-context: ${context}
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: ${context}
  user:
    client-certificate-data: ${kubeconfig.users[0].user["client-certificate-data"]}
    client-key-data: ${kubeconfig.users[0].user["client-key-data"]}
`;
});

// Now that you have the kubeconfig, you can use it with the Kubernetes provider.
const provider = new k8s.Provider("myProvider", {
    kubeconfig: kubeconfig,
});

// Add the required Helm chart repository for the google secrets csi driver.
const chartRepo = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp/main/charts/";
const chartName = "secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp";

// Deploy the Helm chart into our Kubernetes cluster.
const csiDriverChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart(
    "gcpCsiDriver",
    {
        chart: chartName,
        version: "0.1.0", // Modify with the correct chart version.
        fetchOpts: { repo: chartRepo },
        // Specific values needed can be set here, for example namespace, etc.
    },
    { provider: provider }
);

// Export the URL for the AKS kubeconfig, so that it can be used outside of Pulumi.
export const aksKubeconfig = kubeconfig;

// Code ends here
```

In this Pulumi program:
- We're creating a new resource group to contain our AKS cluster named `myResourceGroup`.
- We're provisioning an AKS cluster named `myAksCluster`. The properties of the cluster should be customized based on your specific requirements, such as node size, node count, network settings, etc.
- We're obtaining the `kubeconfig` for our newly created AKS cluster; this is needed to interact with the cluster using `kubectl` commands.
- We're setting up a Kubernetes provider instance using this `kubeconfig` for the AKS cluster.
- We're defining the chart repository and the name of the Helm chart that we wish to install on our AKS cluster (`secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp`).
- Using Pulumi's `Chart` resource, we deploy the Helm chart into our AKS cluster.
- Finally, we export the `kubeconfig` URL for convenience, allowing it to be used outside of the Pulumi ecosystem for tasks like manual inspection or automation scripting with `kubectl`.

Please ensure you understand the full capabilities and limitations of the `secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp` helm chart when deploying it in an environment different from its intended use with GKE. Additional configurations or alternative solutions might be required to achieve the desired functionality on AKS.