Alternate packaging (helm, olm, etc)

[ecordell]

spicedb-operator has minimal packaging right now (a directory of kustomize manifests).

Several options that are worth exploring for other delivery mechanisms:

• helm charts
• OLM and/or RukPak bundles
• KPT
• kustomizer
• crossplane

Whichever packaging we choose to support should be low touch and integrated with the release pipeline.

Update 1/27/23: Releases now include instructions for installing with kubectl, kustomize, and kustomizer. Keeping this open to track the other options above.

[mgagliardo91]

💯 to helm charts as a manifest strategy. I saw there was a community-driven chart at https://github.com/jonwhitty/helm-charts/tree/master/charts/spicedb but it would be nice to use one that is officially supported to ensure that we remain up to date before locking in to using the chart.

[dfr-exnaton]

A "official" helm chart would be beneficial for our GitOps (Flux) managed K8s clusters! Willing to contribute as well..

[croemmich]

@ecordell, I have a helm chart for the operator that creates the same resources as the bundle. I'd be happy to contribute it if it's something you want. Let me know where I should put it.

[corkrean]

Hey @croemmich,

Could you send a link to the public repo where the helm chart is?

We will link to it from here.

[croemmich]

I don't currently have it public, I was hoping to give it to you so I didn't have to maintain it 😄

I'll get it posted on our company Github account and send a link.

[croemmich]

@corkrean https://github.com/bushelpowered/spicedb-operator-chart

It's licensed so you can steal it in the future 😉

[corkrean]

Thanks!