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Adding extra containers to deployments

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
helm, kubernetes
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by reading the Helm chart's deployment configuration and determine how values could represent additional containers. Validate the rendered Kubernetes manifests for a configurable sidecar such as Cloud SQL Proxy, with no Kustomize or post-renderer required.

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Description

When using an external database, it's common to have to use a proxy to safely connect from a service to the database. In Google Cloud, one of the recommended approaches is to have a side car container of cloud-sql-proxy.

I am deploying Devlake in a GitOps Flux-based environment, so Kustomize is not an option as it executes before the Helm chart is extracted and applied. Helm post renderers are an option, but some good effort to get it working.

Additionally, enabling extra containers can also enable other use cases.

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52
Forks
71
Avg merge
16h 15m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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