Deploy the ibm-glusterfs helm chart on Opensshift

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To deploy the `ibm-glusterfs` Helm chart on an OpenShift cluster using Pulumi, you'll leverage Pulumi's Kubernetes provider. Specifically, you will use the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource that allows you to deploy Helm charts into a Kubernetes cluster.

The deployment will follow these steps:
1. Connect to your OpenShift cluster using Pulumi's Kubernetes provider.
2. Use the `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` resource to deploy the `ibm-glusterfs` Helm chart to the cluster.

Before running this Pulumi program you'll need to have the following prerequisites:
- An OpenShift cluster running and accessible from your local machine.
- `kubectl` configured to connect to your OpenShift cluster.
- Helm chart repository containing `ibm-glusterfs` added to your Helm configuration.
- Pulumi CLI installed.
- Node.js and NPM to run the TypeScript Pulumi program.

Now, let's look at the TypeScript program step-by-step. First, we will need to import the necessary Pulumi and Kubernetes packages:

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

Next, we will create a new `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` instance, which represents the `ibm-glusterfs` helm chart:

```typescript
const glusterfsChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("ibm-glusterfs", {
    chart: "ibm-glusterfs",
    // Replace with the URL of your Helm chart repository
    fetchOpts: {
        repo: "https://charts.your-helm-repo.com/",
    },
    // Refer to the ibm-glusterfs Helm chart's documentation for the values you can configure
    // and replace the following with the necessary values as per your requirements.
    values: {
        // ... individual chart values go here
    },
    namespace: "glusterfs" // or any other namespace where you want to deploy the chart
});
```

Putting it all together, your Pulumi program would look like the following:

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

// Create a Pulumi Kubernetes provider that uses your kubeconfig from kubectl to
// connect to the OpenShift cluster.
const provider = new k8s.Provider("openshift-provider", {
    kubeconfig: process.env.KUBECONFIG,
});

// Instantiate the ibm-glusterfs Helm chart; if the chart requires no special
// configuration, you can omit the `values` argument or populate it as needed.
const glusterfsChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("ibm-glusterfs", {
    chart: "ibm-glusterfs",
    fetchOpts: {
        repo: "https://charts.your-helm-repo.com/",
    },
    // Refer to the ibm-glusterfs Helm chart's documentation for the values you can configure
    // and replace the following with the necessary values as per your requirements.
    values: {
        // ... individual chart values go here
    },
    namespace: "glusterfs", // or any other namespace where you want to deploy the chart
}, { provider: provider }); // Use the provider we configured above.

// Optionally export some of the chart's values or resources.
export const glusterfsChartName = glusterfsChart.metadata.apply(meta => meta.name);
```

In this program:
- We set up a Kubernetes provider that Pulumi uses to communicate with your cluster (`openshift-provider`).
- We deploy the `ibm-glusterfs` Helm chart using `kubernetes.helm.v3.Chart` and specify the name, repository, any custom values it might need, and the namespace where it should be deployed.
- We export the name of the deployed chart as a stack output which can be useful for debugging or for integration with other Pulumi stacks.

Remember to replace `"https://charts.your-helm-repo.com/"` with the actual URL to the Helm repository that contains the `ibm-glusterfs` chart.

To run this Pulumi program, you would navigate to your project directory in the terminal and execute `pulumi up`. This will prompt Pulumi to perform the deployment, and it will provide you with a preview and summary of the changes before they are applied. If everything looks correct, you can confirm the deployment, and Pulumi will proceed to deploy the `ibm-glusterfs` chart to your OpenShift cluster.

For more detailed instruction and configuration, refer to the [Pulumi Kubernetes Provider documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/kubernetes/api-docs/helm/v3/chart/).