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Redmine

Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool.

TL;DR;

$ helm install redmine-x.x.x.tgz

Introduction

Bitnami charts for Helm are carefully engineered, actively maintained and are the quickest and easiest way to deploy containers on a Kubernetes cluster that are ready to handle production workloads.

This chart bootstraps a Redmine deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

It also packages the Bitnami MariaDB chart which is required for bootstrapping a MariaDB deployment for the database requirements of the Redmine application.

Get this chart

Download the latest release of the chart from the releases page.

Alternatively, clone the repo if you wish to use the development snapshot:

$ git clone https://github.com/bitnami/charts.git

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

$ helm install --name my-release redmine-x.x.x.tgz

Replace the x.x.x placeholder with the chart release version.

The command deploys Redmine on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The configuration section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip

: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

$ helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Configuration

The following tables lists the configurable parameters of the Redmine chart and their default values.

Parameter Description Default
imageTag bitnami/redmine image tag Redmine image version
imagePullPolicy Image pull policy Always if imageTag is latest, else IfNotPresent
redmineUser User of the application user
redminePassword Application password bitnami
redmineEmail Admin email user@example.com
redmineLanguage Redmine default data language en
smtpHost SMTP host nil
smtpPort SMTP port nil
smtpUser SMTP user nil
smtpPassword SMTP password nil
smtpTls Use TLS encryption with SMTP nil
mariadb.mariadbRootPassword MariaDB admin password nil

The above parameters map to the env variables defined in bitnami/redmine. For more information please refer to the bitnami/redmine image documentation.

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

$ helm install --name my-release \
  --set redmineUser=admin,redminePassword=password,mariadb.mariadbRootPassword=secretpassword \
    redmine-x.x.x.tgz

The above command sets the Redmine administrator account username and password to admin and password respectively. Additionally it sets the MariaDB root user password to secretpassword.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the above parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

$ helm install --name my-release -f values.yaml redmine-x.x.x.tgz

Tip

: You can use the default values.yaml

Persistence

The Bitnami Redmine image stores the Redmine data and configurations at the /bitnami/redmine path of the container.

As a placeholder, the chart mounts an emptyDir volume at this location.

"An emptyDir volume is first created when a Pod is assigned to a Node, and exists as long as that Pod is running on that node. When a Pod is removed from a node for any reason, the data in the emptyDir is deleted forever."

For persistence of the data you should replace the emptyDir volume with a persistent storage volume, else the data will be lost if the Pod is shutdown.

Step 1: Create a persistent disk

You first need to create a persistent disk in the cloud platform your cluster is running. For example, on GCE you can use the gcloud tool to create a gcePersistentDisk:

$ gcloud compute disks create --size=500GB --zone=us-central1-a redmine-data-disk

Step 2: Update templates/deployment.yaml

Replace:

      volumes:
      - name: redmine-data
        emptyDir: {}

with

      volumes:
      - name: redmine-data
        gcePersistentDisk:
          pdName: redmine-data-disk
          fsType: ext4

Note

:

You should also use a persistent storage volume for the MariaDB deployment.

Install the chart after making these changes.