Install with Helm¶

Start WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes with Control Plane¶

Follow the instructions below to deploy APK Data Service (DS) servers and the Cloud Native Postgres(CloudNativePG) in the Kubernetes cluster.

Create Kubernetes namespace¶

kubectl create ns apk

Setup WSO2 API Manager Control Plane 4.3.0¶

Setup WSO2 API Manager 4.3.0 in K8s cluster using Helm Charts.

Create a new helm repository with the latest apim release using the following command. Let’s consider the <repository-name> as wso2apim.
```
helm repo add wso2apim https://github.com/wso2/helm-apim/releases/download/cp-4.3.0
```
Execute the following command to update the helm repositories.
```
helm repo update
```

Consider apim as the <chart-name> for this guide. As the --version of this command, use the version of the release you used in point 1 above. It will take a few minutes for the deployment to complete.

CommandFormat

helm install apim wso2apim/wso2am-cp --version 4.3.0 -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wso2/apk/main/helm-charts/samples/apim/cp/apk-cp/values.yaml -n apk

helm install <chart-name> <repository-name>/wso2am-cp --version <version-of-APIM> -f <path-to-values.yaml-file>

Install NGINX Ingress Controller using the following command. Please refer to the NGINX Ingress Controller documentation for more information.

Setup WSO2 APK Dataplane 1.1.0¶

Create a new helm repository with the latest apk release using the following command. Let’s consider the <repository-name> as wso2apk.
```
helm repo add wso2apk https://github.com/wso2/apk/releases/download/1.1.0
```
Execute the following command to update the helm repositories.
```
helm repo update
```
Install the APK components and start WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes. Consider apk as the <chart-name> for this guide. As the --version of this command, use the version of the release you used in point 1 above. It will take a few minutes for the deployment to complete.
CommandFormat
helm install apk wso2apk/apk-helm --version 1.1.0 -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wso2/apk/main/helm-charts/samples/apk/values.yaml -n apk
helm install <chart-name> <repository-name>/apk-helm --version <version-of-APK> -f <path-to-values.yaml-file>

Setup WSO2 APIM-APK Agent 1.1.0¶

Create a new helm repository with the latest apim apk agent release using the following command. Let’s consider the <repository-name> as wso2apkagent for this guide.
```
helm repo add wso2apkagent https://github.com/wso2/product-apim-tooling/releases/download/1.1.0
```
Execute the following command to update the helm repositories.
```
helm repo update
```

Install the APIM APK Agent components and start WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes. Consider apk as the <chart-name> for this guide. As the --version of this command, use the version of the release you used in point 1 above. It will take a few minutes for the deployment to complete.

CommandFormat

helm install apim-apk-agent wso2apkagent/apim-apk-agent --version 1.1.0 -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wso2/apk/main/helm-charts/samples/apim-apk-agent/cp/values.yaml -n apk

helm install <chart-name> <repository-name>/apim-apk-agent --version <version-of-APK-Agent> -f <path-to-values.yaml-file>

Verify the deployment¶

Now you can verify the deployment by executing the following command. You will see the status of the pods of APK dataplane and APIM Control plane as follows once completed.

Command

kubectl get pods