[Enhancement]: Offer a stack chart

[Stevenpc3]

Related problem

There are no stack charts.

Offering a helm chart for the operator and no stack chart makes no sense. This requires users to make their own stack chart which would be non-standard and hard to keep up to date with any CRD changes.

Suggested solution

Create a stack chart to deploy the resources as templates for the operator to use. There are examples in the repo already... convert them to a stack chart and template them.

Many other operators like CNPG, ECK, ARKMQ, and Kube-prometheus-stack offer stack charts for the user to deploy after deploying the operator.

Alternatives

No response

Additional context

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[scholzj]

Perhaps you should start by properly explaining what is it you are talking about and what a stack chart is.

[scholzj]

Is a stack chart a Helm Chart for the custom resources?

[Stevenpc3]

sure. That is not a standard term. What I mean is the chart to deploy the custom resources yes. The things one would deploy to utilize the operator and supporting items like ingress, services, pvc, pv, statefulsets etc. but in templated so it can be configured. This way there is a standard set of items one could deploy to get a system running and enable / disable features wanted or not needed.

[scholzj]

Thanks for the explanation. We intentionally don't have such Helm Charts. We have multiple different operands with hundreds of different options. It is not really feasible for us to write and maintain them. And I think the complexity and overhead for supporting all the various options the different users would need are too high.

But if you wanna write some Helm Chart for that, you can do it and share it with others through https://github.com/strimzi/awesome-strimzi.