Deploy the cicd helm chart on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)

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To deploy a CI/CD Helm chart on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) using Pulumi, we need to follow these steps:

1. Set up an OKE cluster. If you already have one, we can use its configuration.
2. Ensure that Helm is installed and configured to work with the Kubernetes cluster.
3. Define and deploy the CI/CD Helm chart to our OKE cluster.

In Pulumi, we create a TypeScript program to define these resources and apply the necessary configurations. I'll walk you through the program to deploy a Helm chart that represents your CI/CD workflow.

First, let's establish the prerequisites for the program:

- Make sure the Pulumi CLI and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) CLI are installed and configured correctly.
- Pulumi requires node.js and @pulumi dependencies to be installed.
- Your OCI credentials should be configured to allow Pulumi to create and manage resources in your OCI account.
- You should have `kubectl` and `helm` installed to interact with the cluster and deploy Helm charts.

Below, is the TypeScript program that you can use to deploy your CI/CD Helm chart to an Oracle Kubernetes cluster using Pulumi:

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

// Retrieve the compartment ID for your OCI account
const compartmentId = "ocid1.compartment.oc1..your_compartment_id";

// Step 1: Create or select an OKE cluster
const cluster = new oci.ContainerEngine.Cluster("my-oke-cluster", {
    compartmentId,
    // Define other required fields for your cluster like VCN configuration, node pool configuration, etc.
});

// Obtain Kubernetes configuration from the OKE cluster
const k8sProvider = new k8s.Provider("oke-k8s", {
    kubeconfig: cluster.kubeconfig,
});

// Step 2: Deploy Helm chart for the CI/CD pipeline
const cicdHelmChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("cicd-helm-chart", {
    chart: "cicd-chart-name", // Name of your CI/CD Helm chart
    version: "1.0.0", // The version of the chart to deploy
    // Define the Helm repository if your chart is not in the default Helm repo
    // repo: "https://charts.example.com/",
    // values: {
    //     key1: "value1",
    //     key2: "value2",
    //     // Include other values to configure your CI/CD chart
    // },
}, { provider: k8sProvider });

// Outputs
export const kubeconfig = cluster.kubeconfig;
```

This code does the following:

- It imports necessary Pulumi packages for OCI and Kubernetes.
- Retrieves the compartment ID which is a unique identifier for your OCI compartment.
- Defines the OKE cluster configuration. If you already have an OKE cluster, you would use its kubeconfig instead of creating a new one.
- Uses the OKE's kubeconfig to create a Pulumi Kubernetes Provider (`k8s.Provider`). This tells Pulumi how to communicate with your OKE cluster.
- Deploys the Helm chart with `k8s.helm.v3.Chart`. This requires the name of the chart and optionally the version, repository, and custom values you wish to override.

Please customize the placeholders (like `ocid1.compartment.oc1..your_compartment_id` and `cicd-chart-name`) with the actual values specific to your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes setup.

This program assumes that the `cicd` Helm chart you want to deploy is available in a Helm repository. If it's located in a private repository or it requires any kind of authentication, you'll need to add additional configurations for the repository access.

After writing this code into a file (e.g., `index.ts`), you run it using the Pulumi CLI:

```sh
pulumi up
```

This command will set the defined resources in motion and output their resulting statuses. If the resources are created successfully, you will have your CI/CD pipeline deployed into your OKE cluster via the specified Helm chart.