Kiali Helm Charts

Kiali Helm Charts are published at https://kiali.org/helm-charts.

For Kiali installation documentation, please see:

• Kiali Quick Start Guide

• Kiali Installation Guide

Chart Source

Kiali Operator helm chart source is found in the kiali-operator folder. Kiali Server helm chart source is found in the kiali-server folder.

Developer Notes

Building

To build the helm charts, simply run make clean build-helm-charts which will generate the operator and server helm charts and stores their tarballs in the _output/charts directory.

Using the local Helm chart builds

Server

To generate the server templates, run:

helm template -n istio-system --set auth.strategy=anonymous --set deployment.image_version=latest kiali-server _output/charts/kiali-server-*-SNAPSHOT.tgz

To install the server, run:

helm install -n istio-system --set auth.strategy=anonymous --set deployment.image_version=latest kiali-server _output/charts/kiali-server-*-SNAPSHOT.tgz

To uninstall the server, run:

helm uninstall -n istio-system kiali-server

Operator

To generate the operator templates, run:

helm template -n kiali-operator --set allowAdHocKialiImage=true --set image.tag=latest --create-namespace kiali-operator _output/charts/kiali-operator-*-SNAPSHOT.tgz

To install the operator, run:

helm install -n kiali-operator --set allowAdHocKialiImage=true --set image.tag=latest --create-namespace kiali-operator _output/charts/kiali-operator-*-SNAPSHOT.tgz

To uninstall the operator, run:

helm uninstall -n kiali-operator kiali-operator

Overriding values

You can pass --set options to the above commands if you wish to override the default values. You can set nested dictionary values using dot notation: --set deployment.logger.log_level=debug. For a list of items, comma-separate the values and wrap the list in curly braces: --set "kubernetes_config.excluded_workloads={CronJob,Job}". You can set individual list items using square brackets: --set kubernetes_config.excluded_workloads[0]=CronJob.

If you locally built and pushed your Kiali server and Kiali operator images to your cluster, you can have the helm chart installations pull those images by the following settings:

Helm Chart	Cluster Type	Settings
Server	Minikube	--set deployment.image_name=localhost:5000/kiali/kiali --set deployment.image_version=dev
Server	OpenShift	--set deployment.image_name=image-registry.openshift-image-registry.svc:5000/kiali/kiali --set deployment.image_version=dev
Operator	Minikube	--set image.repo=localhost:5000/kiali/kiali-operator --set image.tag=dev --set cr.spec.deployment.image_name=localhost:5000/kiali/kiali --set cr.spec.deployment.image_version=dev
Operator	OpenShift	--set image.repo=image-registry.openshift-image-registry.svc:5000/kiali/kiali-operator --set image.tag=dev --set cr.spec.deployment.image_name=image-registry.openshift-image-registry.svc:5000/kiali/kiali --set cr.spec.deployment.image_version=dev