answer

An open-source knowledge-based community software. You can use it quickly to build Q&A community for your products, customers, teams, and more.

Prerequisites

Kubernetes 1.20+

Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the answer chart and their default values.

Parameter	Description	Default
`replicaCount`	Number of answer replicas	`1`
`image.repository`	Image repository	`apache/answer`
`image.pullPolicy`	Image pull policy	`Always`
`image.tag`	Image tag	`latest`
`env`	Optional environment variables for answer	`LOG_LEVEL: INFO`
`extraContainers`	Optional sidecar containers to run along side answer	`[]`
`persistence.enabled`	Enable or disable persistence for the /data volume	`true`
`persistence.accessMode`	Specify the access mode of the persistent volume	`ReadWriteOnce`
`persistence.size`	The size of the persistent volume	`5Gi`
`persistence.annotations`	Annotations to add to the volume claim	`{}`
`imagePullSecrets`	Reference to one or more secrets to be used when pulling images	`[]`
`nameOverride`	nameOverride replaces the name of the chart in the Chart.yaml file, when this is used to construct Kubernetes object names.
`fullnameOverride`	fullnameOverride completely replaces the generated name.
`serviceAccount.create`	If `true`, create a new service account	`true`
`serviceAccount.annotations`	Annotations to add to the service account	`{}`
`serviceAccount.name`	Service account to be used. If not set and `serviceAccount.create` is `true`, a name is generated using the fullname template
`podAnnotations`	Annotations to add to the answer pod	`{}`
`podSecurityContext`	Security context for the answer pod	`{}` refer to Default Security Contexts
`securityContext`	Security context for the answer container	`{}` refer to Default Security Contexts
`service.type`	The type of service to be used	`ClusterIP`
`service.port`	The port that the service should listen on for requests. Also used as the container port.	`80`
`ingress.enabled`	Enable or disable ingress.	`false`
`resources`	CPU/memory resource requests/limits	`{}`
`autoscaling.enabled`	Enable or disable pod autoscaling. If enabled, replicas are disabled.	`false`
`nodeSelector`	Node labels for pod assignment	`{}`
`tolerations`	Node tolerations for pod assignment	`[]`
`affinity`	Node affinity for pod assignment	`{}`

Default Security Contexts

The default pod-level and container-level security contexts, below, adhere to the restricted Pod Security Standards policies.

Default pod-level securityContext:

runAsNonRoot: true
seccompProfile:
  type: RuntimeDefault

Default containerSecurityContext:

allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
capabilities:
  drop:
  - ALL

Installing with a Values file

$ helm install answer -f values.yaml .

Tip: You can use the default [values.yaml]

TODO

Publish the chart to Artifacthub and add proper installation instructions. E.G.

NOTE: This is not currently a valid installation option.

$ helm repo add apache https://charts.answer.apache.org/
$ helm repo update
$ helm install apache/answer -n mynamespace