Is it possible to pre-install charts on Kubernetes dev service

[LarsSven]

Quarkus provides a Kubernetes dev service for tests and dev mode, which is an awesome feature. However, we have the problem that we have a Quarkus application that is deploying Custom Resources (in this case from Kueue https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/), so to be able to use the dev service, we need to have the Kueue helm chart pre-installed on the Kubernetes cluster. For tests this is doable by doing this as a @BeforeEach task, but I'm not sure how to do this when running Quarkus in dev mode.

[quarkus-bot[bot]]

/cc @geoand (devservices,kubernetes), @iocanel (kubernetes)

[metacosm]

Note that deploying k8s manifests shouldn't be too much of an issue, helm charts would be a different beast because that would assume you can bring up the Helm machinery instead of simply applying the k8s manifests via the provided kube client to the dev service cluster.

[LarsSven]

@metacosm k3s is one of the possible flavors for Quarkus Kubernetes dev services though, and it has a built-in Helm controller. So there is a manifest you can apply to k3s that will bring up a Helm chart https://docs.k3s.io/helm. So the ability to apply manifests is all we need to get helm charts to work.

[LarsSven]

@metacosm is the Kubernetes manifests something I should pick up if I want it to be added to Quarkus, or will I then conflict with work you plan to do?

[metacosm]

If you have the bandwidth to work on this, go ahead, by all means!

[LarsSven]

I have time to work on it, my team would really like this feature so I can put some time into it. I am blocked on #48475 though, kinda hard to add a feature to the dev service if the dev service does not work.