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helm: Support pre-existing external services instead of subcharts.#609

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@alexmv alexmv commented Feb 12, 2026

Add the ability to use external (pre-existing) PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Memcached, and Redis servers instead of always deploying Bitnami subcharts. Each service gets a <service>.enabled condition in Chart.yaml and a corresponding external<Service> values section for configuring the external connection details.

When <service>.enabled is set to false, the subchart is not deployed and the Zulip container is configured to connect to the external host specified in the external<Service> values.

The default behavior is unchanged — all subcharts deploy by default with enabled: true.

Fixes: #360.

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@alexmv alexmv force-pushed the claude/external-service-support-IY0ho branch 2 times, most recently from 7e1e7a9 to a009fac Compare February 12, 2026 20:36
Add the ability to use external (pre-existing) PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ,
Memcached, and Redis servers instead of always deploying Bitnami
subcharts. Each service gets a `<service>.enabled` condition in
Chart.yaml and a corresponding `external<Service>` values section
for configuring the external connection details.

When `<service>.enabled` is set to false, the subchart is not
deployed and the Zulip container is configured to connect to the
external host specified in the `external<Service>` values.

The default behavior is unchanged — all subcharts deploy by default
with `enabled: true`.

Fixes: zulip#360.

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I do like this suggestion, and also the way we want to deploy Zulip (and any other application). I haven't tested the merge request itself - but the solution - thumbs up.

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Helm chart: allow external services

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