1. Deploy the gardener-controlplane helm chart on Linode Kubernetes Engine

    TypeScript

    To deploy the gardener-controlplane Helm chart on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) using Pulumi, you'll want to follow these high-level steps:

    1. Set up your Linode Kubernetes cluster.
    2. Install and configure Pulumi with the Kubernetes provider.
    3. Write a Pulumi program to deploy the Helm chart to your LKE cluster.

    Since Pulumi operates based on the concept of Infrastructure as Code, you'll write a program that defines the desired state of your infrastructure. Pulumi will then take this definition and make the necessary API calls to Linode and Kubernetes to create and configure your resources.

    Below is a TypeScript program that demonstrates these steps. This Pulumi program uses the @pulumi/kubernetes package to interface with Kubernetes and deploy Helm charts:

    import * as k8s from "@pulumi/kubernetes"; // 1. Configuring the Kubernetes provider to connect to your LKE cluster // Assume that the kubeconfig file necessary to connect to your LKE cluster is already set up. const kubeconfig = "<your LKE cluster kubeconfig here>"; // Initialize a Kubernetes provider instance with the kubeconfig obtained from Linode // This will let Pulumi know how to communicate with your Kubernetes cluster. const k8sProvider = new k8s.Provider("lke-k8s", { kubeconfig: kubeconfig, }); // 2. Deploying the gardener-controlplane Helm Chart // Define the Helm chart resource that you want to deploy. // You would replace `CHART_VERSION` with the version of the chart you wish to deploy. const gardenerControlPlaneChart = new k8s.helm.v3.Chart("gardener-controlplane", { chart: "gardener-controlplane", version: "CHART_VERSION", // <-- specify the chart version here fetchOpts:{ repo: "https://charts.gardener.cloud/stable", // This is the repository where the chart is located. }, }, { provider: k8sProvider }); // Export any relevant outputs, for example, the status of the Helm release. export const helmReleaseStatus = gardenerControlPlaneChart.status;

    Replace <your LKE cluster kubeconfig here> with the actual kubeconfig content for your LKE cluster. You can obtain this from your Linode dashboard. Also, replace CHART_VERSION with the specific version of the gardener-controlplane Helm chart you want to deploy.

    Here's a brief rundown of what this program does:

    • Imports the @pulumi/kubernetes package, which is the Pulumi Kubernetes provider allowing you to interact with Kubernetes clusters.
    • Sets up provider configuration using kubeconfig, which is the authentication configuration used to connect to your LKE cluster.
    • Defines a Chart resource which tells Pulumi to deploy the gardener-controlplane Helm chart from its Helm repository into your cluster.

    After writing this code in a index.ts file, you would run pulumi up to apply the configuration. Pulumi will then output the results, showing what resources will be created or updated.

    Remember, this is a high-level example. The actual parameters you pass to the Helm chart (like values) may vary depending on the configuration options supported by the gardener-controlplane Helm chart. You may need to configure those parameters based on your specific requirements.