Try It Out

• A running Kubernetes cluster (v1.30 or higher is required by KEDA)
• Helm v3.8 or higher for OCI support (Installation instructions)
• kubectl installed and configured

If you have a cluster to work with, skip this step. Otherwise, start a Minikube cluster. Deployment instructions

Add the Helm chart to your local Helm client.

helm repo add arangodb https://arangodb.github.io/kube-arangodb
helm repo update

Create values.yaml with the following code:

operator:
  enableCRDManagement: false
  enableCRDCreation: false
  features:
    storageCRD: false
  architectures:
    - amd64
    - arm64

Install the deployment:

helm install arangodb arangodb/kube-arangodb \
  -f values.yaml \
  --wait --timeout 360s

Save the file to substitute ArangoDB Minimus image and the relevant architecture: amd64 or arm64. The below example assumes amd64.

apiVersion: "database.arangodb.com/v1"
kind: "ArangoDeployment"
metadata:
  name: "example-simple-single"
spec:
  mode: Single
  image: reg.mini.dev/arangodb
  architecture:
    - amd64
  tls:
    ttl: 2160h

Apply configured ArangoDB deployment:

kubectl apply -f single-server.yaml --wait=true --timeout 360s
kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready arangodeployment/example-simple-single --timeout=360s
kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pod -l app=arangodb --timeout=360s

Next, you'll need to port-forward the server pod that's running the server.

Run the following kubectl command to list the ArangoDB pods and locate the pod name for your example server:

kubectl get pods -l app=arangodb

Open a new terminal window and use kubectl port-forward to map the pod's port 8529 to your local port 8529. Replace <pod-name> with the actual name of the pod you found above:

kubectl port-forward pod/<pod-name> 8529:8529

Once port-forwarding is set up, you can continue following the subsequent steps using your original terminal window.

Check ArangoDB API version:

curl -k -u root: https://localhost:8529/_api/version

Create a new database testdb using the ArangoDB shell (arangosh) command-line client tool and print all databases:

ARANGO_POD=$(kubectl get pods -l app=arangodb -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')
kubectl exec $ARANGO_POD -c server -- \
  arangosh --server.endpoint ssl://localhost:8529 \
  --server.username root \
  --server.password "" \
  --javascript.execute-string 'db._createDatabase("testdb"); db._databases().forEach(function(d) { print(d); });'

Visit the Arangodb Web UI at https://localhost:8529/_db/_system/_admin/aardvark/index.html.

Uninstall the chart to delete the namespace and its resources, including Pods, Deployments, Services, Secrets, ConfigMaps, etc.:

helm uninstall arangodb

Technical Considerations

The ArangoDB image provided by Minimus is a FIPS-validated, slim, security-hardened alternative to the public image from Docker Hub. The images are largely interchangeable, with a few differences as noted below.

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