README.md

This directory is still under development -- Ansible playbooks are the ONLY currently supported deployment mechanism

Deploying AIS with Helm (includes operator)

This directory contains Helm charts for deploying AIS along with its dependencies. It assumes a properly configured K8s cluster with drives already formatted and mounted for use (see the host-config ansible playbooks).

Prerequisites

1. Kubernetes nodes configured with formatted drives
2. Helm installed locally
   1. Helm-diff plugin: helm plugin install https://github.com/databus23/helm-diff
   2. Helmfile: https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile?tab=readme-ov-file
3. Local Kubectl configured to access the cluster

Update Values

Next, copy the values-sample.yaml file in ./charts/ais-cluster, to a new values file. Then modify the values in your new file for your desired cluster.

Install Charts

To install the charts provided, we use helmfile. Update the helmfile.yaml to configure the destination namespaces and reference the values.yaml configured for your deployment. Then from the ais directory run:

helmfile upgrade

To uninstall:

helmfile destroy

Individual Charts

If you only want to modify one part of the installation, it is possible to run the charts individually in ./charts with their own values.yaml files.

Chart	Description
ais-create-pv	Creates persistent volumes to be used by AIS targets.