Packaging the helm chart into Terraform + Kubernetes

[jdmcd]

Hi there,

Really excited to use OpenReplay! We are trying to package the Helm chart up so that it can be deployed using our Terraform infrastructure into our Kubernetes cluster. It's unclear what link I should direct Helm to - the docs say to download it locally, but the Helm provider requires either a Helm Repository or a link to a zipped provider file. Does OpenReplay host either of those?

Thanks!

[rjshrjndrn]

Hi, @jdmcd Thanks for opening this issue.
We've a roadmap to release helm as a standalone package rather than git clone. But it'll take some time. But for your specific is there any other way of integrating this? for example shell module to clone and use helm package command to pack it locally, and use that package to install the app?
Or is there any way to point to a local file system or git repo path ?
This is a workaround. As I told release as helm charts are in pipeline, and will be available in coming releases.

This might shed some light on that
hashicorp/terraform-provider-helm#189

[jdmcd]

Thanks @rjshrjndrn! Local seems to be off to a good start, but now I'm getting this error:

Error: template: openreplay/charts/utilities/templates/deployment.yaml:42:32: executing "openreplay/charts/utilities/templates/deployment.yaml" at <.Values.global.s3.region>: nil pointer evaluating interface {}.region

Any ideas?

[jdmcd]

I tried setting global.s3.region and the error goes away, but then it's replaced with:

Error: template: openreplay/charts/utilities/templates/deployment.yaml:44:21: executing "openreplay/charts/utilities/templates/deployment.yaml" at <eq .Values.global.s3.endpoint "http://minio.db.svc.cluster.local:9000">: error calling eq: incompatible types for comparison

[rjshrjndrn]

check this file out. There are some shared state b/w database and application layer, which is centralized in this file.
https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay/blob/main/scripts/helmcharts/vars.yaml

Installation happens like this
https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay/blob/main/scripts/helmcharts/init.sh#L86-L89

[jdmcd]

Gotcha - thanks. I think I am going to explore the standalone AWS deployment option

[roshan1988]

Do we still have it in the roadmap to have helm as a standalone package ?