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	answerdev/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 answerdev https://charts.answer.dev/
$ helm repo update
$ helm install answerdev/answer -n mynamespace