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Config DB Helm Installation Guide

Initial Set up

Helm must be installed to use the charts. Refer the Helm documentation to get started. With Helm installed and running, add the Flanksource Helm repository as shown below:

helm repo add flanksource https://flanksource.github.io/charts
helm repo update

Prerequisites

A Kubernetes installation of version 1.14 or higher.

Note

Config DB Helm installation comes with service account configuration. If you are an AWS EKS user, you need to create an IAM role so the So the service account can query the AWS API. See the IAM roles for service accounts AWS documentation for more information.

Config DB Installation

helm install [RELEASE_NAME] flanksource/config-db

See configuration below.

See helm install for command documentation.

Uninstall Chart

helm uninstall [RELEASE_NAME]

This removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

See helm uninstall for command documentation.

Upgrading Chart

$ helm upgrade [RELEASE_NAME] [CHART] --install

See helm upgrade for command documentation.

Configuration

See Customizing the Chart Before Installing. To see all configurable options with detailed comments, visit the chart's values.yaml, or run these configuration commands:

helm show values flanksource/config-db