Offline deployment of Kubeblocks with Ansible

[bbaassssiiee]

Hi,

Since offline deployment with a private Helm OCI registry is possible, but a bit tedious, I will share my results after getting excellent help in this forum discussion.

Ansible role

I created an ansible-role on GitHub and published it on Galaxy

The variable desired_state can be used in testing with values present and absent, to install or uninstall kubeblocks. The defaults/main.yml has a minimal set of addons, which can be overridden in your group_vars.

Installing the role

ansible-galaxy install bbaassssiiee.kubeblocks

Example playbook

- name: Manage KubeBlocks
  hosts: localhost
  become: false
  connection: local
  vars:
    # Semaphore does not pass $HOME so K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG needs to be set.
    k8s_auth_kubeconfig: /home/semaphore/.kube/config

  pre_tasks:
    - name: desired_state
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg: "{{ desired_state }}"

  tasks:
    - name: Configure KubeBlocks
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: bbaassssiiee.kubeblocks

[Niceies]

Must step on the helm warehouse? Is it possible to just need the helm package to exist in the directory without calling the helm command to obtain it during the installation process?