Deploying CDP Dash Backend

This section describes the steps to configure and deploy the HCL CDP Dash Backend on an AKS cluster using the provided Helm chart.

Before you begin

The required HCL CDP Helm charts and container images must be downloaded and pushed to the container registry. For more information, see the Downloading HCL CDP Artifacts section.

Use the existing UI Secret from the HashiCorp Vault.

Procedure

  1. Configure chart-location/cdp-dash-backend/values.yaml with the environment-specific configuration.
  2. Enable ConfigMaps and configure the required CDP Dash Backend application URLs.
  3. Update the CDP Dash Backend container image repository and required image version/tag.
  4. Verify the image pull secret exists. 
    kubectl get secret hclcr-cred -n cdp-dev-app
  5. Enable Ingress and configure the required hostname, path, and TLS settings.
  6. Ensure the vault-creds Secret exists. 
    kubectl get secret vault-creds -n cdp-dev-app
  7. The init container retrieves the ui secret from CDP_Secrets and writes it to /etc/secrets/mysecrets.json.
  8. Verify or create the namespace. 
    kubectl get namespace cdp-dev-app

    If the namespace does not exist, create it:

    kubectl create namespace cdp-dev-app
  9. Install CDP Dash Backend using Helm. 
    helm install cdp-dash-backend \
  chart-location/cdp-dash-backend \
  -f chart-location/cdp-dash-backend/values.yaml \
  -n cdp-dev-app
  10. Verify the Helm release status. 
    helm list -n cdp-dev-app

    Expected status: deployed.

  11. Verify the deployment and pods. 
    kubectl get deployment -n cdp-dev-app
kubectl get pods -n cdp-dev-app -l k8s-app=cdp-dash-backend

    Expected pod status: READY 1/1, STATUS Running.