🧨 install Chart is NOT idempotent 🧨

[eformat]

you can install, uninstall this chart.

but if you have a failed install, then try to reinstall i.e. run this multiple times:

helm upgrade --install do500 . --namespace do500 --create-namespace --timeout=15m --set group_name=lodestar-developers

then gitlab deployments DOES NOT redeploy properly, making a right royal mess. you have to delete do500-gitlab namespace, let that install from fresh.

also, the stackrox and crw operators finalizers are still dodgy ... causing you to have to patch finalizers and remove objects when trying to cleanly uninstall.

[burigolucas]

I experienced this issue with the reinstall after a failure to deploy gitlab. The cause of the problem is that the chart generates new passwords, see

enablement-framework/tooling/charts/tl500-base/templates/_helpers.tpl

Lines 94 to 108 in 689113d

	{{- define "gitlab.root_password" -}}
	{{- print (randAlphaNum 10) -}}
	{{- end -}}
	{{- define "gitlab.postgres.user" -}}
	{{- print (randAlphaNum 10) -}}
	{{- end -}}
	{{- define "gitlab.postgres.password" -}}
	{{- print (randAlphaNum 10) -}}
	{{- end -}}
	{{- define "gitlab.postgres.admin_password" -}}
	{{- print (randAlphaNum 10) -}}
	{{- end -}}

One way to solve this is to store the passwords in a secret and use a lookup to retrieve the passwords when reinstalling (upgrading) the chart.

The PR #172 implements this approach.