Bitnami package for Parse Server

Parse is a platform that enables users to add a scalable and powerful backend to launch a full-featured app for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Windows, Unity, and more.

Overview of Parse Server

Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

helm install my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/parse

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository.

Introduction

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

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters.

Prerequisites

  • Kubernetes 1.23+
  • Helm 3.8.0+
  • PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
  • ReadWriteMany volumes for deployment scaling

Installing the Chart

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

helm install my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/parse

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

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

Tip: List all releases using helm list

Configuration and installation details

Resource requests and limits

Bitnami charts allow setting resource requests and limits for all containers inside the chart deployment. These are inside the resources value (check parameter table). Setting requests is essential for production workloads and these should be adapted to your specific use case.

To make this process easier, the chart contains the resourcesPreset values, which automatically sets the resources section according to different presets. Check these presets in the bitnami/common chart. However, in production workloads using resourcePreset is discouraged as it may not fully adapt to your specific needs. Find more information on container resource management in the official Kubernetes documentation.

Rolling VS Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Deploy your Cloud functions with Parse Cloud Code

The Bitnami Parse image allows you to deploy your Cloud functions with Parse Cloud Code (a feature which allows running a piece of code in your Parse Server instead of the user’s mobile devices). In order to add your custom scripts, they must be located inside the chart folder files/cloud so they can be consumed as a ConfigMap.

Alternatively, you can specify custom scripts using the cloudCodeScripts parameter as dict.

In addition to these options, you can also set an external ConfigMap with all the Cloud Code scripts. This is done by setting the existingCloudCodeScriptsCM parameter. Note that this will override the two previous options.

Adding extra environment variables

In case you want to add extra environment variables (useful for advanced operations like custom init scripts), you can use the extraEnvVars (available in the server and dashboard sections) property.

extraEnvVars:
  - name: PARSE_SERVER_ALLOW_CLIENT_CLASS_CREATION
    value: true

Alternatively, you can use a ConfigMap or a Secret with the environment variables. To do so, use the extraEnvVarsCM or the extraEnvVarsSecret values.

Deploying extra resources

There are cases where you may want to deploy extra objects, such as KongPlugins, KongConsumers, amongst others. For covering this case, the chart allows adding the full specification of other objects using the extraDeploy parameter. The following example would activate a plugin at deployment time.

## Extra objects to deploy (value evaluated as a template)
##
extraDeploy: |-
  - apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
    kind: RoleBinding
    metadata:
      name: {{ include "common.names.fullname" . }}-privileged
      namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
      labels: {{- include "common.labels.standard" ( dict "customLabels" .Values.commonLabels "context" $ ) | nindent 6 }}
    roleRef:
      apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
      kind: ClusterRole
      name: cluster-admin
    subjects:
      - kind: ServiceAccount
        name: default
        namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}

Setting Pod’s affinity

This chart allows you to set your custom affinity using the XXX.affinity paremeter(s). Find more infomation about Pod’s affinity in the kubernetes documentation.

As an alternative, you can use of the preset configurations for pod affinity, pod anti-affinity, and node affinity available at the bitnami/common chart. To do so, set the XXX.podAffinityPreset, XXX.podAntiAffinityPreset, or XXX.nodeAffinityPreset parameters.

Persistence

The Bitnami Parse image stores the Parse data and configurations at the /bitnami/parse path of the container.

Persistent Volume Claims are used to keep the data across deployments. This is known to work in GCE, AWS, and minikube. See the Parameters section to configure the PVC or to disable persistence.

Adjust permissions of persistent volume mountpoint

As the image run as non-root by default, it is necessary to adjust the ownership of the persistent volume so that the container can write data into it.

By default, the chart is configured to use Kubernetes Security Context to automatically change the ownership of the volume. However, this feature does not work in all Kubernetes distributions. As an alternative, this chart supports using an initContainer to change the ownership of the volume before mounting it in the final destination.

You can enable this initContainer by setting volumePermissions.enabled to true.

Parameters

Global parameters

Name Description Value
global.imageRegistry Global Docker image registry ""
global.imagePullSecrets Global Docker registry secret names as an array []
global.storageClass Global StorageClass for Persistent Volume(s) ""
global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext Adapt the securityContext sections of the deployment to make them compatible with Openshift restricted-v2 SCC: remove runAsUser, runAsGroup and fsGroup and let the platform use their allowed default IDs. Possible values: auto (apply if the detected running cluster is Openshift), force (perform the adaptation always), disabled (do not perform adaptation) auto

Common Parameters

Name Description Value
nameOverride String to partially override common.names.fullname template (will maintain the release name) ""
fullnameOverride String to fully override common.names.fullname template ""
namespaceOverride String to fully override common.names.namespace ""
kubeVersion Force target Kubernetes version (using Helm capabilites if not set) ""
commonLabels Add labels to all the deployed resources {}
commonAnnotations Add annotations to all the deployed resources {}
extraDeploy Array of extra objects to deploy with the release []
diagnosticMode.enabled Enable diagnostic mode (all probes will be disabled and the command will be overridden) false
diagnosticMode.command Command to override all containers in the deployment ["sleep"]
diagnosticMode.args Args to override all containers in the deployment ["infinity"]

Parse server parameters

Name Description Value
server.image.registry Parse image registry REGISTRY_NAME
server.image.repository Parse image repository REPOSITORY_NAME/parse
server.image.digest Parse image digest in the way sha256:aa…. Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
server.image.pullPolicy Image pull policy IfNotPresent
server.image.pullSecrets Specify docker-registry secret names as an array []
server.image.debug Enable image debug mode false
server.automountServiceAccountToken Mount Service Account token in pod false
server.hostAliases Deployment pod host aliases []
server.podLabels Extra labels for Parse pods {}
server.podAnnotations Annotations for Parse pods {}
server.forceOverwriteConfFile Overwrite config.json configuration file on each run (set to false if mounting a custom configuration file) true
server.podSecurityContext.enabled Enabled Parse Dashboard pods’ Security Context true
server.podSecurityContext.fsGroupChangePolicy Set filesystem group change policy Always
server.podSecurityContext.sysctls Set kernel settings using the sysctl interface []
server.podSecurityContext.supplementalGroups Set filesystem extra groups []
server.podSecurityContext.fsGroup Set Parse Dashboard pod’s Security Context fsGroup 1001
server.containerSecurityContext.enabled Enabled containers’ Security Context true
server.containerSecurityContext.seLinuxOptions Set SELinux options in container {}
server.containerSecurityContext.runAsUser Set containers’ Security Context runAsUser 1001
server.containerSecurityContext.runAsGroup Set containers’ Security Context runAsGroup 1001
server.containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot Set container’s Security Context runAsNonRoot true
server.containerSecurityContext.privileged Set container’s Security Context privileged false
server.containerSecurityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem Set container’s Security Context readOnlyRootFilesystem true
server.containerSecurityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation Set container’s Security Context allowPrivilegeEscalation false
server.containerSecurityContext.capabilities.drop List of capabilities to be dropped ["ALL"]
server.containerSecurityContext.seccompProfile.type Set container’s Security Context seccomp profile RuntimeDefault
server.command Override default container command (useful when using custom images) []
server.args Override default container args (useful when using custom images) []
server.containerPorts.http Parse server port 1337
server.mountPath Parse server API mount path /parse
server.appId Parse server App ID myappID
server.masterKey Parse server Master Key ""
server.masterKeyIps Parse server Master setting an allowed IP address 0.0.0.0/0
server.extraEnvVars An array to add extra env vars []
server.extraEnvVarsCM Name of a ConfigMap containing extra environment variables ""
server.extraEnvVarsSecret Name of a Secret containing extra environment variables ""
server.extraVolumes Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for the Parse pod(s) []
server.extraVolumeMounts Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for the Parse container(s) []
server.sidecars Add additional sidecar containers to the Parse pod(s) []
server.initContainers Add additional init containers to the Parse pod(s) []
server.pdb.create Enable/disable a Pod Disruption Budget creation true
server.pdb.minAvailable Minimum number/percentage of pods that should remain scheduled ""
server.pdb.maxUnavailable Maximum number/percentage of pods that may be made unavailable. Defaults to 1 if both server.pdb.minAvailable and server.pdb.maxUnavailable are empty. ""
server.enableCloudCode Enable Parse Cloud Code false
server.cloudCodeScripts Cloud Code scripts {}
server.existingCloudCodeScriptsCM ConfigMap with Cloud Code scripts (Note: Overrides cloudCodeScripts). ""
server.resourcesPreset Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if server.resources is set (server.resources is recommended for production). nano
server.resources Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads) {}
server.livenessProbe.enabled Enable livenessProbe true
server.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for livenessProbe 120
server.livenessProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for livenessProbe 10
server.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for livenessProbe 5
server.livenessProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for livenessProbe 5
server.livenessProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for livenessProbe 1
server.readinessProbe.enabled Enable readinessProbe true
server.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for readinessProbe 30
server.readinessProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for readinessProbe 5
server.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for readinessProbe 5
server.readinessProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for readinessProbe 5
server.readinessProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for readinessProbe 1
server.startupProbe.enabled Enable startupProbe on Parse containers false
server.startupProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for startupProbe 0
server.startupProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for startupProbe 3
server.startupProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for startupProbe 1
server.startupProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for startupProbe 15
server.startupProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for startupProbe 1
server.customLivenessProbe Custom livenessProbe that overrides the default one {}
server.customReadinessProbe Custom readinessProbe that overrides the default one {}
server.customStartupProbe Custom startupProbe that overrides the default one {}
server.podAffinityPreset Parse server pod affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
server.podAntiAffinityPreset Parse server pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard soft
server.nodeAffinityPreset.type Parse server node affinity preset type. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
server.nodeAffinityPreset.key Parse server node label key to match Ignored if affinity is set. ""
server.nodeAffinityPreset.values Parse server node label values to match. Ignored if affinity is set. []
server.affinity Parse server affinity for pod assignment {}
server.nodeSelector Parse server node labels for pod assignment {}
server.tolerations Parse server tolerations for pod assignment []
server.updateStrategy.type Parse statefulset strategy type RollingUpdate
server.priorityClassName Parse pods’ priorityClassName ""
server.topologySpreadConstraints Topology Spread Constraints for pod assignment spread across your cluster among failure-domains. Evaluated as a template []
server.schedulerName Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default) for Parse pods ""
server.terminationGracePeriodSeconds Seconds Redmine pod needs to terminate gracefully ""
server.lifecycleHooks for the Parse container(s) to automate configuration before or after startup {}
server.service.type Kubernetes Service type LoadBalancer
server.service.ports.http Service HTTP port (Dashboard) 1337
server.service.nodePorts.http Kubernetes HTTP node port ""
server.service.clusterIP Service Cluster IP ""
server.service.loadBalancerIP Service Load Balancer IP ""
server.service.loadBalancerSourceRanges Service Load Balancer sources []
server.service.externalTrafficPolicy Service external traffic policy Cluster
server.service.annotations Additional custom annotations for Service {}
server.service.extraPorts Extra ports to expose in Service (normally used with the sidecars value) []
server.service.sessionAffinity Control where client requests go, to the same pod or round-robin None
server.service.sessionAffinityConfig Additional settings for the sessionAffinity {}
server.networkPolicy.enabled Specifies whether a NetworkPolicy should be created true
server.networkPolicy.allowExternal Don’t require server label for connections true
server.networkPolicy.allowExternalEgress Allow the pod to access any range of port and all destinations. true
server.networkPolicy.extraIngress Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy []
server.networkPolicy.extraEgress Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy []
server.networkPolicy.ingressNSMatchLabels Labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces {}
server.networkPolicy.ingressNSPodMatchLabels Pod labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces {}

Dashboard Parameters

Name Description Value
dashboard.enabled Enable parse dashboard true
dashboard.image.registry Dashboard image registry REGISTRY_NAME
dashboard.image.repository Dashboard image repository REPOSITORY_NAME/parse-dashboard
dashboard.image.digest Dashboard image digest in the way sha256:aa…. Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
dashboard.image.pullPolicy image pull policy IfNotPresent
dashboard.image.pullSecrets Specify docker-registry secret names as an array []
dashboard.image.debug Enable Parse Dashboard image debug mode false
dashboard.replicaCount Number of Parse Dashboard replicas to deploy 1
dashboard.containerPorts.http Parse Dashboard HTTP container port 4040
dashboard.automountServiceAccountToken Mount Service Account token in pod false
dashboard.hostAliases Deployment pod host aliases []
dashboard.podSecurityContext.enabled Enabled Parse Dashboard pods’ Security Context true
dashboard.podSecurityContext.fsGroupChangePolicy Set filesystem group change policy Always
dashboard.podSecurityContext.sysctls Set kernel settings using the sysctl interface []
dashboard.podSecurityContext.supplementalGroups Set filesystem extra groups []
dashboard.podSecurityContext.fsGroup Set Parse Dashboard pod’s Security Context fsGroup 1001
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.enabled Enabled containers’ Security Context true
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.seLinuxOptions Set SELinux options in container {}
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.runAsUser Set containers’ Security Context runAsUser 1001
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.runAsGroup Set containers’ Security Context runAsGroup 1001
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot Set container’s Security Context runAsNonRoot true
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.privileged Set container’s Security Context privileged false
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem Set container’s Security Context readOnlyRootFilesystem true
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation Set container’s Security Context allowPrivilegeEscalation false
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.capabilities.drop List of capabilities to be dropped ["ALL"]
dashboard.containerSecurityContext.seccompProfile.type Set container’s Security Context seccomp profile RuntimeDefault
dashboard.command Override default container command (useful when using custom images) []
dashboard.args Override default container args (useful when using custom images) []
dashboard.username Parse Dashboard application username user
dashboard.password Parse Dashboard application password ""
dashboard.appName Parse Dashboard application name MyDashboard
dashboard.resourcesPreset Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if dashboard.resources is set (dashboard.resources is recommended for production). nano
dashboard.resources Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads) {}
dashboard.livenessProbe.enabled Enable livenessProbe true
dashboard.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for livenessProbe 240
dashboard.livenessProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for livenessProbe 10
dashboard.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for livenessProbe 5
dashboard.livenessProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for livenessProbe 5
dashboard.livenessProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for livenessProbe 1
dashboard.readinessProbe.enabled Enable readinessProbe true
dashboard.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for readinessProbe 30
dashboard.readinessProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for readinessProbe 5
dashboard.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for readinessProbe 5
dashboard.readinessProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for readinessProbe 5
dashboard.readinessProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for readinessProbe 1
dashboard.startupProbe.enabled Enable startupProbe on Parse Dashboard containers false
dashboard.startupProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for startupProbe 0
dashboard.startupProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for startupProbe 3
dashboard.startupProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for startupProbe 2
dashboard.startupProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for startupProbe 15
dashboard.startupProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for startupProbe 1
dashboard.customLivenessProbe Custom livenessProbe that overrides the default one {}
dashboard.customReadinessProbe Custom readinessProbe that overrides the default one {}
dashboard.customStartupProbe Custom startupProbe that overrides the default one {}
dashboard.podLabels Extra labels for Parse Dashboard pods {}
dashboard.podAnnotations Annotations for Parse Dashboard pods {}
dashboard.podAffinityPreset Parse dashboard pod affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
dashboard.podAntiAffinityPreset Parse dashboard pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard soft
dashboard.nodeAffinityPreset.type Parse dashboard node affinity preset type. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
dashboard.nodeAffinityPreset.key Parse dashboard node label key to match Ignored if affinity is set. ""
dashboard.nodeAffinityPreset.values Parse dashboard node label values to match. Ignored if affinity is set. []
dashboard.affinity Parse dashboard affinity for pod assignment {}
dashboard.nodeSelector Parse dashboard node labels for pod assignment {}
dashboard.tolerations Parse dashboard tolerations for pod assignment []
dashboard.updateStrategy.type Parse statefulset strategy type RollingUpdate
dashboard.priorityClassName Parse pods’ priorityClassName ""
dashboard.topologySpreadConstraints Topology Spread Constraints for pod assignment spread across your cluster among failure-domains. Evaluated as a template []
dashboard.schedulerName Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default) for Parse pods ""
dashboard.terminationGracePeriodSeconds Seconds Redmine pod needs to terminate gracefully ""
dashboard.lifecycleHooks for the Parse container(s) to automate configuration before or after startup {}
dashboard.parseServerUrlProtocol Protocol used by Parse Dashboard to form the URLs to Parse server http
dashboard.extraEnvVars An array to add extra env vars []
dashboard.extraEnvVarsCM Name of a ConfigMap containing extra environment variables ""
dashboard.extraEnvVarsSecret Name of a Secret containing extra environment variables ""
dashboard.extraVolumes Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for the Parse pod(s) []
dashboard.extraVolumeMounts Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for the Parse container(s) []
dashboard.sidecars Add additional sidecar containers to the Parse pod(s) []
dashboard.initContainers Add additional init containers to the Parse pod(s) []
dashboard.pdb.create Enable/disable a Pod Disruption Budget creation true
dashboard.pdb.minAvailable Minimum number/percentage of pods that should remain scheduled ""
dashboard.pdb.maxUnavailable Maximum number/percentage of pods that may be made unavailable. Defaults to 1 if both dashboard.pdb.minAvailable and dashboard.pdb.maxUnavailable are empty. ""
dashboard.forceOverwriteConfFile Overwrite config.json configuration file on each run (set to false if mounting a custom configuration file) true
dashboard.service.type Kubernetes Service type LoadBalancer
dashboard.service.ports.http Service HTTP port (Dashboard) 80
dashboard.service.nodePorts.http Kubernetes HTTP node port ""
dashboard.service.clusterIP Service Cluster IP ""
dashboard.service.loadBalancerIP Service Load Balancer IP ""
dashboard.service.loadBalancerSourceRanges Service Load Balancer sources []
dashboard.service.externalTrafficPolicy Service external traffic policy Cluster
dashboard.service.annotations Additional custom annotations for Service {}
dashboard.service.extraPorts Extra ports to expose in Service (normally used with the sidecars value) []
dashboard.service.sessionAffinity Control where client requests go, to the same pod or round-robin None
dashboard.service.sessionAffinityConfig Additional settings for the sessionAffinity {}
dashboard.networkPolicy.enabled Specifies whether a NetworkPolicy should be created true
dashboard.networkPolicy.allowExternal Don’t require label for connections true
dashboard.networkPolicy.allowExternalEgress Allow the pod to access any range of port and all destinations. true
dashboard.networkPolicy.extraIngress Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy []
dashboard.networkPolicy.extraEgress Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy []
dashboard.networkPolicy.ingressNSMatchLabels Labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces {}
dashboard.networkPolicy.ingressNSPodMatchLabels Pod labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces {}

Traffic Exposure Parameters

Name Description Value
ingress.enabled Set to true to enable ingress record generation false
ingress.ingressClassName IngressClass that will be be used to implement the Ingress (Kubernetes 1.18+) ""
ingress.tls Enable TLS configuration for the hostname defined at ingress.hostname parameter false
ingress.selfSigned Create a TLS secret for this ingress record using self-signed certificates generated by Helm false
ingress.annotations Additional annotations for the Ingress resource. To enable certificate autogeneration, place here your cert-manager annotations. {}
ingress.dashboard.hostname Default host for the ingress resource parse-dashboard.local
ingress.dashboard.path The Path to Parse. You may need to set this to ‘/*’ in order to use this with ALB ingress controllers. /
ingress.dashboard.pathType Ingress path type ImplementationSpecific
ingress.dashboard.extraHosts The list of additional hostnames to be covered with this ingress record. []
ingress.dashboard.extraPaths Any additional arbitrary paths that may need to be added to the ingress under the main host. []
ingress.server.hostname Default host for the ingress resource parse-server.local
ingress.server.path Default path for the ingress resource*’ in order to use this with ALB ingress controllers. /
ingress.server.pathType Ingress path type ImplementationSpecific
ingress.server.extraHosts The list of additional hostnames to be covered with this ingress record. []
ingress.server.extraPaths Any additional arbitrary paths that may need to be added to the ingress under the main host. []
ingress.extraTls The tls configuration for additional hostnames to be covered with this ingress record. []
ingress.secrets If you’re providing your own certificates, please use this to add the certificates as secrets []
ingress.extraRules Additional rules to be covered with this ingress record []

Persistence Parameters

Name Description Value
persistence.enabled Enable Parse persistence using PVC true
persistence.storageClass PVC Storage Class for Parse volume ""
persistence.accessModes PVC Access Mode for Parse volume ["ReadWriteOnce"]
persistence.size PVC Storage Request for Parse volume 8Gi
persistence.existingClaim The name of an existing PVC to use for persistence ""
persistence.selector Selector to match an existing Persistent Volume for Parse data PVC {}
persistence.dataSource Custom PVC data source {}
persistence.annotations Persistent Volume Claim annotations {}

Volume Permissions parameters

Name Description Value
volumePermissions.enabled Enable init container that changes volume permissions in the data directory (for cases where the default k8s runAsUser and fsUser values do not work) false
volumePermissions.image.registry Init container volume-permissions image registry REGISTRY_NAME
volumePermissions.image.repository Init container volume-permissions image name REPOSITORY_NAME/os-shell
volumePermissions.image.digest Init container volume-permissions image digest in the way sha256:aa…. Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy Init container volume-permissions image pull policy IfNotPresent
volumePermissions.image.pullSecrets Init container volume-permissions image pull secrets []
volumePermissions.resourcesPreset Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if volumePermissions.resources is set (volumePermissions.resources is recommended for production). none
volumePermissions.resources Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads) {}
serviceAccount.create Specifies whether a ServiceAccount should be created true
serviceAccount.name The name of the ServiceAccount to use. ""
serviceAccount.annotations Additional Service Account annotations (evaluated as a template) {}
serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken Automount service account token for the server service account false

MongoDB® Parameters

Name Description Value
mongodb.enabled Enable MongoDB® chart true
mongodb.auth.enabled Enable MongoDB® password authentication true
mongodb.auth.rootPassword MongoDB® admin password ""
mongodb.auth.username MongoDB® user bn_parse
mongodb.auth.password MongoDB® user password ""
mongodb.auth.database MongoDB® database bitnami_parse
mongodb.persistence.enabled Enable MongoDB® persistence using PVC true
mongodb.persistence.storageClass PVC Storage Class for MongoDB® volume ""
mongodb.persistence.accessMode PVC Access Mode for MongoDB® volume ReadWriteOnce
mongodb.persistence.size PVC Storage Request for MongoDB® volume 8Gi
mongodb.resourcesPreset Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if resources is set (resources is recommended for production). small
mongodb.resources Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads) {}
Note

:

For the Parse application function correctly, you should specify the parseHost parameter to specify the FQDN (recommended) or the public IP address of the Parse service.

Optionally, you can specify the loadBalancerIP parameter to assign a reserved IP address to the Parse service of the chart. However please note that this feature is only available on a few cloud providers (f.e. GKE).

To reserve a public IP address on GKE:

$ gcloud compute addresses create parse-public-ip

The reserved IP address can be associated to the Parse service by specifying it as the value of the loadBalancerIP parameter while installing the chart.

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

helm install my-release \
  --set dashboard.username=admin,dashboard.password=password \
    oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/parse

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

The above command sets the Parse administrator account username and password to admin and password respectively.

NOTE: Once this chart is deployed, it is not possible to change the application’s access credentials, such as usernames or passwords, using Helm. To change these application credentials after deployment, delete any persistent volumes (PVs) used by the chart and re-deploy it, or use the application’s built-in administrative tools if available.

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

helm install my-release -f values.yaml oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/parse

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts. Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Troubleshooting

Find more information about how to deal with common errors related to Bitnami’s Helm charts in this troubleshooting guide.

Upgrading

To 22.0.0

This major bump changes the following security defaults:

  • runAsGroup is changed from 0 to 1001
  • readOnlyRootFilesystem is set to true
  • resourcesPreset is changed from none to the minimum size working in our test suites (NOTE: resourcesPreset is not meant for production usage, but resources adapted to your use case).
  • global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext is changed from disabled to auto.

This could potentially break any customization or init scripts used in your deployment. If this is the case, change the default values to the previous ones.

To 21.0.0

This major updates the MongoDB® subchart to its newest major, 14.0.0. No major issues are expected during the upgrade.

To 19.0.0

This major updates the MongoDB® subchart to its newest major, 13.0.0. No major issues are expected during the upgrade.

To 18.0.0

This major release renames several values in this chart and adds missing features, in order to be inline with the rest of assets in the Bitnami charts repository.

Affected values:

  • server.port is renamed to server.containerPorts.http
  • service.port is renamed to dashboard.service.ports.http
  • metrics.containerPort is renamed to metrics.containerPorts.metrics
  • service.nodePort is renamed to dashboard.service.nodePorts.http
  • persistence.accessMode is renamed to persistence.accessModes as list
  • securityContext is splitted into podSecurityContext and containerSecurityContext and moved into the different sections (mongos, shardsvr.dataNode, shardsvr.arbiterand configsvr):
    • securityContext.fsGroup is renamed to XXX.podSecurityContext.fsGroup
    • securityContext.runAsUser is renamed to XXX.containerSecurityContext.runAsUser
    • securityContext.runAsNonRoot is renamed to XXX.containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot

Also MongoDB® subchart container images were updated to 5.0.x and it can affect compatibility with older versions of MongoDB®.

To 16.0.0

In this version, the mongodb-exporter bundled as part of the bitnami/mongodb dependency was updated to a new version which, even it is not a major change, can contain breaking changes (from 0.11.X to 0.30.X).

Please visit the release notes from the upstream project at https://github.com/percona/mongodb_exporter/releases

To 15.0.0

The Bitnami Parse and Bitnami Parse Dashboard images were refactored and now the source code is published in GitHub in the rootfs folder of the container images.

Compatibility is not guaranteed due to the amount of involved changes, however no breaking changes are expected.

To 14.0.0

This version standardizes the way of defining Ingress rules. When configuring a single hostname for the Ingress rule, set the ingress.dashboard.hostname and ingress.server.hostname values. When defining more than one, set the ingress.dashboard.extraHosts and ingress.server.extraHosts arrays. Apart from this case, no issues are expected to appear when upgrading.

To 13.0.0

On November 13, 2020, Helm v2 support was formally finished, this major version is the result of the required changes applied to the Helm Chart to be able to incorporate the different features added in Helm v3 and to be consistent with the Helm project itself regarding the Helm v2 EOL.

What changes were introduced in this major version?

  • Previous versions of this Helm Chart use apiVersion: v1 (installable by both Helm 2 and 3), this Helm Chart was updated to apiVersion: v2 (installable by Helm 3 only). Here you can find more information about the apiVersion field.
  • Move dependency information from the requirements.yaml to the Chart.yaml
  • After running helm dependency update, a Chart.lock file is generated containing the same structure used in the previous requirements.lock
  • The different fields present in the Chart.yaml file has been ordered alphabetically in a homogeneous way for all the Bitnami Helm Charts

Considerations when upgrading to this version

  • If you want to upgrade to this version from a previous one installed with Helm v3, you shouldn’t face any issues
  • If you want to upgrade to this version using Helm v2, this scenario is not supported as this version doesn’t support Helm v2 anymore
  • If you installed the previous version with Helm v2 and wants to upgrade to this version with Helm v3, please refer to the official Helm documentation about migrating from Helm v2 to v3

Useful links

To 12.0.0

MongoDB® subchart container images were updated to 4.4.x and it can affect compatibility with older versions of MongoDB®.

To 11.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed since breaking changes were included in MongoDB® subchart. More information in the link below:

To 10.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed. The following notables changes were included:

  • parse-dashboard is bumped to the branch 2 (major version)
  • Labels are adapted to follow the Helm charts best practices.

To 5.1.0

Parse & Parse Dashboard containers were moved to a non-root approach. There shouldn’t be any issue when upgrading since the corresponding securityContext is enabled by default. Both container images and chart can be upgraded by running the command below:

helm upgrade my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/parse

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

If you use a previous container image (previous to 3.1.2-r14 for Parse or 1.2.0-r69 for Parse Dashboard), disable the securityContext by running the command below:

helm upgrade my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/parse --set server.securityContext.enabled=false,dashboard.securityContext.enabled=false,server.image.tag=XXX,dashboard.image.tag=YYY

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

To 3.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless you modify the labels used on the chart’s deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 3.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is parse:

kubectl patch deployment parse-parse-dashboard --type=json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/selector/matchLabels/chart"}]'
kubectl patch deployment parse-parse-server --type=json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/selector/matchLabels/chart"}]'
kubectl patch deployment parse-mongodb --type=json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/selector/matchLabels/chart"}]'

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