Deploy the whatweb helm chart on Opensshift

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Deploying a Helm chart on an OpenShift cluster with Pulumi involves several steps. First, you'll need to set up your Pulumi project and ensure you have access to the OpenShift cluster. Afterward, you would typically use Pulumi's Kubernetes provider to interact with the cluster and deploy applications using the Helm chart.

Here's a high-level overview of what the program will do:
- Initialize a Pulumi project using the `kubernetes` package.
- Establish a Pulumi Kubernetes provider instance for communicating with your OpenShift cluster.
- Create an instance of a `Chart` resource using the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` class, which will effectively run `helm install` or `helm upgrade` for the specified chart.

Below is a TypeScript program that can be used with Pulumi to deploy the "whatweb" Helm chart on an OpenShift cluster. The specific chart details (like `repo` and `chart`) would need to align with the actual Helm chart you're trying to deploy.

Make sure you have the Pulumi CLI installed and have access to the OpenShift cluster from your local machine (e.g., via `oc login` or `kubectl` with appropriate kubeconfig setup).

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

// Create a provider resource to interact with your OpenShift cluster.
const openshiftProvider = new kubernetes.Provider("openshift", {
    // Assuming kubeconfig is properly configured on the system running Pulumi.
    // You may specify a kubeconfig file explicitly if needed.
    kubeconfig: process.env.KUBECONFIG,
});

// Define the Helm chart for WhatWeb.
// Replace `repo` and `chart` values with actual data from the Helm repository that provides the WhatWeb chart.
const whatWebChart = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart("whatweb", {
    repo: "example-repo",          // Replace with the actual Helm chart repository
    chart: "whatweb",              // Replace with the actual WhatWeb chart name
    // Specify the version of the Helm chart you want to deploy.
    version: "1.0.0",              // Replace with the actual chart version
    // `values` is a set of configuration parameters that are passed to the Helm chart.
    values: {
        // Specify any values that are necessary for your chart.
        // This depends on what the specific Helm chart for WhatWeb requires.
        // Example: service: { type: "ClusterIP" }
    },
}, { provider: openshiftProvider }); // Use the OpenShift provider to deploy the chart.

// Export any details needed to access your application.
// For example, if your Helm chart creates a service of type LoadBalancer, you might export the IP or hostname.
// export const applicationUrl = whatWebChart.getResourceProperty("v1/Service", "whatweb-service", "status").apply(s => `http://${s.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname}`);
```

This program sets up the necessary configuration to deploy the "whatweb" Helm chart to an OpenShift cluster. Before running this program with Pulumi, you need to replace placeholder strings like `"example-repo"` and `"whatweb"` with actual values that point to the repository where the Helm chart is stored and the name of the Helm chart itself, respectively.

To learn about the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource, visit the [Pulumi documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/kubernetes/api-docs/helm/v3/chart/).

To run the program, execute `pulumi up` in your Pulumi project directory. If you don't have a Pulumi project set up yet, you will first need to create one with `pulumi new`. Once the program runs successfully, your Helm chart will be deployed to your OpenShift cluster, and if any outputs were exported (such as service URLs), they will be displayed as part of the command output.