Helm charts

The Helm section has a list of Helm charts available from the underlying IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management. If you want the charts in the remote IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management to be available in Managed services, copy your charts from the remote to the local IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management.

The number mentioned within parenthesis next to the type indicates the number of Helm charts available from the underlying IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management. The number of charts visible is governed by the access defined by the IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management team for your user ID.

For a list of limitations, see Helm limitations section of Troubleshooting Service Composer or Portal issues.

Procedure

1. Browse through the list of Helm charts or use the Filter to search for a particular Helm chart.

2. Drag the selected Helm chart to the pane. You cannot work with the user interface until the REST calls retrieve and load data of the Helm chart activity in the user interface.

   Note: The listed Helm charts do not have the exact IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management icons.

3. Check Editable flag if you want to edit these parameters while editing the service instance.

4. In the Basic Information tab, enter or select the following details:

   • Title - Enter title of the Helm chart activity. It is a mandatory field. It is also the label name that appears in the Helm chart activity.
   • Activity Id - The Id is automatically generated and is not editable. Click Copy to copy the value of the activity Id to your clipboard.
   • Helm Chart Name - It is the name of the Helm chart and is not editable.
   • Helm Chart Provider - It is the name of the provider and is not editable.
   • Version - Select the Helm chart version. A Helm chart is always at its default version.
   • Release Name - Enter the release name of the Helm chart activity.

   • Connection - There are different ways to enter values for the connection:

     • If you want to select an existing connection, select a connection from the drop-down list. Support is extended for local IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management (MCM Connection) connection and connections to external IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.
     • You can enter the name of the connection while you create the service and then create the actual connection before deployment.

     • You can create dynamic connections wherein the connection details are fetched during runtime. The output of a previous activity in the sequence can be mapped to the connection field as follows:

        ${<activity>.<id>.output.<param-name>}
       

       or to a service parameter: ${input_parameters.paramname}

   • In Chart License, select I have read and agreed to the license agreements.

5. Update the details in Parameters tab. All parameters defined in the Helm chart are displayed. For more information, see Parameters tab of an activity.