TIS Plus Helm Charts

Overview

This document explains how to use a Helm Chart to install the TIS Plus Management Plane (and optionally allows to install the MP CR and/or the secrets).

The chart installs the operator of the Management Plane. The Management Plane also allows creating the corresponding resource that triggers the operator (using the spec attribute) to deploy all the Management Plane and/or the required secrets (using the secrets attribute) to making it properly run.

This behavior lets you choose the way to fully configure TIS Plus and integrate with CD pipelines. You can use helm to:

• only install the operator
• install/upgrade the Management Plane resource along with the operator
• install/upgrade the secrets along with the operator
• install/upgrade all of them (operator, resource, secrets) at once

Regarding secrets, keep in mind that helm install/upgrade command accepts different files that can be provided by different sources, using one of the source for the spec and another for secrets.

There is an extra configuration (secrets.keep) to keep the secrets installed and avoid removing them. With this, secrets can be applied just once, and future upgrades without secrets won't remove them.

By default, Helm charts also install TIS Plus CRDs. If you wish to skip the CRD installation step, you can pass the --skip-crds flag.

Installation process

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure that you've:

1. Checked the requirements
   
2. Installed Helm
3. Installed kubectl
4. Synced the TIS Plus images

Configure the Helm repository

• Add the repository:

  helm repo add tetrate-tsb-helm 'https://charts.dl.tetrate.io/public/helm/charts/'
  helm repo update
• List the available versions:

  helm search repo tetrate-tsb-helm -l

Installation

Go to Management Plane Installation and run through the installation process.