Bitnami Umbrella chart - a subchart for multiple application

I am using helm bitnami charts for my application to deploy in kubernetes.

My application contains following 3 components,

Web UI Web API 1 Web API 2 Here Web UI is the static UI application in nginx server and the Web API 1 and Web API 2 are the aspnet core web API application called in Web UI application.

Currently deploying like below,

The Web UI using nginx chart - https://hub.helm.sh/charts/bitnami/nginx

helm install web-ui-dev bitnami/nginx

The Web API 1 using aspnet-core chart - https://hub.helm.sh/charts/bitnami/aspnet-core

helm install web-api1-dev bitnami/aspnet-core

The Web API 2 also using same aspnet-core chart

helm install web-api2-dev bitnami/aspnet-core

Since my application is dependent on 3 components, i am planning to use the helm umbrella chart. So created a parent chart (say 'ag') with below dependencies in chart.yaml file and in values.yaml giving all the subchart values.

dependencies:
    - name: nginx
      version: 6.2.0
      repository: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
    - name: aspnet-core
      version: 0.2.0
      repository: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami

But the problem here i could not use the aspnet-core chart to deploy both Web API 1 and Web API 2 in a single helm install command of umbrella chart.

When i say helm install dev ag its not installing all 3 components, either i can deploy Web API 1 or Web API 2.

Any idea to make this work of using the single helm install of umbrella chart to deploy multiple applications of same chart.

Thanks.

Solution

you can use alias in your dependencies file. like this.

    - name: nginx
      version: 6.2.0
      repository: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
    - name: aspnet-core
      version: 0.2.0
      repository: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
      alias: web-api1-dev
    - name: aspnet-core
      version: 0.2.0
      repository: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
      alias: web-api2-dev

Then use aliases in your main values.yaml file.