Deployment of Novu

The instructions here pertain to the deployment of Novu and associated components on the Kubernetes cluster using Novu helm chart. All the components are installed in the same namespace.

Prerequisites

Before you deploy, make sure the following are in place:

✅ Infrastruction setup is completed.
✅ Environment has been setup with common resources installed.
✅ Domain name novu.<your environment>.<your domain name> (e.g. novu.qa.openg2p.org) is available along with SSL certificate for the domain (the wild certificate should have already been loaded during Infrastructure setup)
✅ Project Owner access on the OpenG2P namespace

Installation using Rancher UI

Log in to Rancher admin console.
Select your cluster.
Under Apps -> Repositories click on Create to add a repository.
Provide Name as openg2p and target HTTPS Index URL as https://openg2p.github.io/openg2p-helm and click Create.
To display prerelease versions of OpenG2P apps, click on your user avatar in the upper right corner of the Rancher dashboard. Then click on Include Prerelease Versions under Preferences under Helm Charts.
Select the namespace in which you would like to install novu, from the namespace filter on the top-right.
Navigate to Apps->Charts page on Rancher. You should see novu Helm charts listed.
Proceed to Install novu chart select the latest version to be installed, and click Install.
On the next screen, choose a name for installation, like novu. Select the checkbox Customise Helm options before install, and click Next.
Go through each app's configuration page, and configure the following:
1. Configure a hostname for each app in the following way. <appname>.<base-hostname> , where base host name is the wildcard hostname chosen during Istio namespace setup. Example: novu-api.qa.openg2p.org, etc. <appname> is arbitrary - default names have been provided.
Click Next to reach Helm Options page. Disable wait flag. Click on Install.
Wait for all the pods to get into Running state. This may take several minutes.