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Install Percona Server for MongoDB using Helm

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. Percona Helm charts can be found in percona/percona-helm-charts repository on Github.

Pre-requisites

Install Helm following its official installation instructions.

Note

Helm v3 is needed to run the following steps.

Installation

  1. Add the Percona’s Helm charts repository and make your Helm client up to date with it:

    $ helm repo add percona https://percona.github.io/percona-helm-charts/
$ helm repo update

  2. Install Percona Operator for MongoDB:

    $ helm install my-op percona/psmdb-operator --version 1.13.0

    The my-op parameter in the above example is the name of a new release object which is created for the Operator when you install its Helm chart (use any name you like).

    Note

    If nothing explicitly specified, helm install command will work with default namespace. To use different namespace, provide it with the following additional parameter: --namespace my-namespace.

  3. Install Percona Server for MongoDB:

    $ helm install my-db percona/psmdb-db --version 1.13.0 --namespace my-namespace

    The my-db parameter in the above example is the name of a new release object which is created for the Percona Server for MongoDB when you install its Helm chart (use any name you like).

Installing Percona Server for MongoDB with customized parameters

The command above installs Percona Server for MongoDB with default parameters. Custom options can be passed to a helm install command as a --set key=value[,key=value] argument. The options passed with a chart can be any of the Operator’s Custom Resource options.

Note

Parameters from the Replica Set section are treated differently: if you specify any parameter from replsets, the Operator will not use default values for this Replica Set. So do not specify Replica Set options at all or specify all needed options for the Replica Set.

The following example will deploy a Percona Server for MongoDB Cluster in the psmdb namespace, with disabled backups and 20 Gi storage:

$ helm install my-db percona/psmdb-db --version 1.13.0 --namespace psmdb \
  --set "replsets[0].name=rs0" --set "replsets[0].size=3" \
  --set "replsets[0].volumeSpec.pvc.resources.requests.storage=20Gi" \
  --set backup.enabled=false --set sharding.enabled=false
Last update: 2022-09-21