Cluster Chart : Config
This helm chart is used to create a personnalized cluster configuration with various cluster level components configured as required.
This chart is part of the cluster-xxx startx helm chart series that doesn’t necessarily deploy pods but rather represent a cluster configuration state orchestrated by gitops tools like ArgoCD.
Requirements and guidelines
Read the startx helm-repository homepage for more information on how to use theses resources.
Deploy this helm chart on openshift
1. Connect to your Openshift cluster
oc login -t <token> <cluster-url>
2. Install the repository
helm repo add startx https://helm-repository.readthedocs.io/en/latest/repos/stable/
3. Get information about this chart
helm show chart startx/cluster-config
4. Install this chart
helm install cluster-config startx/cluster-config
Default values
Complete deployment of a project with the following characteristics :
- 1 ClusterAutoscaler: named default that is disabled by default but could enable autoscaling with the following limits
- No lest than 4 cores
- No lest than 16Gi RAM
- No lest than 2 nodes
- No more than 40 cores
- No more than 160Gi RAM
- No more than 20 nodes
- Cluster could scale down
- 1 ClusterVersion: named version that is disabled by default but could enable and is related to
- The candidate channel
- The 4.5 version
- 1 Secret: named alertmanager-main that configure
- The PagerDutyStartx receiver as default alert receiver using the startx pagerDutty key (fake ;)
- An api endpoint pointing to the api_endpoint endpoint
- 1 ImagePruner: named cluster that define an image prunner that will
- Run every 15min but is suspended
- Preserve 5 failed history
- Preserve 5 successful history
- 1 namespace: named openshift-operators-redhat to host redhat operators
# base configuration running default configuration
helm install cluster-config startx/cluster-config
Others values availables
- startx : Startx cluster default configuration with 30min enabled image prunnning scheduling, pagerdutty alert enabled and cluster auto-scaling topped to 64 core and 400Gi RAM consumed (see values.yaml)
helm install cluster-config startx/cluster-config -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/startxfr/helm-repository/master/charts/cluster-config/values-startx.yaml
Deploy with ArgoCD
This chart configures multiple cluster domains. Deploy one ArgoCD Application per domain.
AppProject
git clone https://gitlab.com/startx1/helm.git
cd helm-repository/charts/cluster-config/examples/argocd/
oc apply -k .
Applications
History
| Release | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 16.19.59 | 2024-12-09 | Align all chart to the 16.19.59 release |
| 17.14.21 | 2025-03-31 | Add NoExecute toleration for node-role.kubernetes.io/infra |
| 17.14.90 | 2025-04-30 | Publish stable release for 4.17 version |
| 18.11.71 | 2025-11-27 | Align all charts to the same releas |
| 18.23.0 | 2026-02-28 | Start 4.19 branch |
| 19.23.15 | 2026-03-02 | Prepare upgrading dependency to 19.23.11 |
| 19.23.17 | 2026-03-02 | Align all dependencies to chart v19.23.11 |
| 20.14.7 | 2026-03-02 | Update dependencies to version 20.14.0 |
| 20.14.15 | 2026-03-02 | Update all chrat to OCP version 4.20.14 |
| 21.3.0 | 2026-03-02 | Update all chart to OCP version 4.21.3 |
| 21.3.1 | 2026-03-02 | Prepare release 21.3.x with 21.x dependencies |
| 21.3.3 | 2026-03-02 | Upgrade dependencies to v21.3.0 |
| 21.3.4 | 2026-06-17 | 21.3.9 |
| 21.3.11 | 2026-06-17 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.12 | 2026-06-18 | Update context version to 4.21.3, loki operator to v6.5.1, add multi-app ArgoCD deployment examples |
| 21.3.13 | 2026-06-18 | Improve cluster-config options |
| 21.3.14 | 2026-06-18 | Improve cluster-config options |
| 21.3.27 | 2026-06-19 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.55 | 2026-06-19 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.56 | 2026-06-19 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.56 | 2026-06-19 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.67 | 2026-06-20 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.68 | 2026-06-20 | update basic dependencies to v21.3.70 |
| 21.3.68 | 2026-06-20 | update all charts dependencies to v21.3.70 |
| 21.3.68 | 2026-06-20 | update all charts dependencies to v21.3.70 |
| 21.3.102 | 2026-06-20 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.103 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.103 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.104 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.105 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.105 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.105 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.106 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.107 | 2026-06-21 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.167 | 2026-06-23 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.181 | 2026-06-23 | publish stable update for the full repository |
| 21.3.182 | 2026-06-23 | publish stable update for the full repository |