feat: enterprise-grade Helm deployment with local CRC registry integration

[NotYuSheng]

Summary

This PR implements enterprise-grade Helm standardization for OmniPDF with shared values architecture and local CRC registry integration. Enables consistent deployment across dev/staging/prod environments with proper image management and service orchestration.

Related to infrastructure improvements and Kubernetes deployment strategy.

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Changes Made

• Enhanced image loading system: Updated load-images.sh to handle Docker Hub URL formats (3 and 4-component paths)
• Docker Hub integration: Added standard services (nginx, redis, minio, chromadb) to images.txt with proper Docker Hub URLs
• Local CRC registry configuration: Updated staging values to use local registry for development/testing
• Complete Helm chart suite: Added charts for all missing services (cleaner, docling-translation, nginx, pdf-extraction, pdf-processor, pdf-renderer, redis)
• Shared values architecture: Enhanced staging configuration with local registry support
• Documentation updates: Comprehensive CLAUDE.md updates with deployment procedures and shared values system

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Context / Rationale

Problem: OmniPDF lacked standardized Kubernetes deployment with proper image management for local development environments using CRC (CodeReady Containers).

Solution:

• Implemented enterprise-grade Helm standardization with shared values system
• Enhanced image loading to support both external registries (GHCR) and Docker Hub services
• Configured local CRC registry integration for development workflows
• Created complete Helm chart ecosystem for all OmniPDF services

Benefits:

• Consistent deployment across environments (dev/staging/prod)
• Local development with CRC using internal registry
• Simplified image management with automated loading scripts
• Enterprise-ready with proper resource management and security policies

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Related Docs or References

• Updated CLAUDE.md with comprehensive Helm deployment documentation
• Enhanced shared values system documentation
• Local CRC registry integration guide
• Image loading and management procedures

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Deployment-focused PR - FastAPI checklist not applicable

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General Checklist

• I have tested these changes locally
• I have updated relevant documentation or added comments where needed
• I have followed coding conventions and naming standards
• Successfully deployed and tested chat-service health endpoint
• Verified image loading from both GHCR and Docker Hub
• Tested local CRC registry integration
• Validated Helm chart installations

Testing Results:

• ✅ Chat Service: Running (2/2 pods) with health endpoint responding
• ✅ ChromaDB & MinIO: Successfully deployed with Docker Hub images
• ✅ Local registry: Images successfully loaded and accessible
• ✅ Helm charts: All install without errors

Known Issues:

• Embedder service requires temp volume mount for ML libraries (separate issue)
• Resource constraints in CRC for full deployment (expected in local dev)

[gemini-code-assist]

Summary of Changes

Hello @NotYuSheng, I'm Gemini Code Assist¹! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request significantly advances OmniPDF's deployment capabilities by introducing an enterprise-grade Helm standardization. It establishes a robust shared values architecture and integrates with local CRC registries, ensuring consistent and efficient deployment across development, staging, and production environments. The changes aim to streamline image management and service orchestration, addressing previous challenges with local development environments and overall deployment consistency.

Highlights

• Enhanced Image Loading System: The load-images.sh script has been updated to correctly handle Docker Hub URL formats (both 3 and 4-component paths), and standard services like nginx, redis, minio, and chromadb have been added to images.txt with proper Docker Hub URLs.
• Local CRC Registry Integration: Staging environment values have been configured to seamlessly integrate with a local CRC registry, enabling efficient development and testing workflows for OmniPDF services.
• Complete Helm Chart Suite: Dedicated Helm charts have been introduced for all missing OmniPDF services (cleaner, docling-translation, nginx, pdf-extraction, pdf-processor, pdf-renderer, redis), ensuring a complete and standardized deployment suite.
• Standardized Configuration with Shared Values: A shared values architecture has been implemented, enhancing the staging configuration and promoting consistent and standardized deployments across development, staging, and production environments.
• Comprehensive Documentation Updates: Comprehensive updates have been made to CLAUDE.md and new documentation added (LOCAL_IMAGE_REPOSITORY.md, Makefile help) to detail deployment procedures, the shared values system, and image management.

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[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This PR introduces a comprehensive Helm-based deployment strategy for the OmniPDF microservices, which is a significant step towards standardizing deployments across different environments. The use of a shared values architecture is an excellent practice for maintainability and consistency. The Makefile and helper scripts also greatly simplify the deployment workflow. My review focuses on improving the robustness and correctness of the Helm charts and scripts, addressing several critical copy-paste errors, and refining the configuration for better security and reliability.

[gemini-code-assist]

The image.repository is hardcoded to point to the chat_service image registry path. This is a copy-paste error and will cause the wrong image to be deployed for this service. This issue exists in the prestaging values for all the new service charts (nginx, pdf-extraction-service, etc.). Each service's values-prestaging.yaml should point to its own image repository.

  repository: default-route-openshift-image-registry.apps-crc.testing/omnipdf/docling-translation-service

[gemini-code-assist]

There are several hardcoded values in this file that seem to be copy-pasted from the chat-service chart. This issue is present in the production values files for nginx, pdf-extraction-service, pdf-processor-service, and pdf-renderer-service as well.

• Ingress Host: The ingress.hosts.host is set to chat.company.com. Each service should have its own unique hostname.
• Pod Anti-Affinity: The affinity.podAntiAffinity rule has a matchExpressions value of chat-service. This should be parameterized to use the current chart's name to ensure anti-affinity works correctly for each distinct service.

[gemini-code-assist]

This Helm chart for Redis appears to be a corrupted copy of the MinIO chart. The deployment args and env variables are for MinIO, not Redis. For example, it sets MINIO_ROOT_USER and runs server /data --console-address :9001, which is incorrect for a Redis container. The health probes are also configured for MinIO's API.

This chart needs to be completely rewritten to correctly deploy Redis. A standard Redis chart would typically use a redis.conf for configuration and probes that execute redis-cli PING.

[gemini-code-assist]

The uninstall-all target iterates through all subdirectories in helm/, including shared-values and assets, which are not Helm charts. This will cause helm uninstall to fail for these directories. You should add a condition to skip non-chart directories, similar to the one in the install-all and upgrade-all targets.

uninstall-all:
	@echo "Uninstalling all Helm charts under ./helm/..."
	@for dir in helm/*/; do \
		CHART=$$(basename $$dir); \
		if [ "$$CHART" != "shared-values" ] && [ "$$CHART" != "assets" ]; then \
			echo "Uninstalling chart: $$CHART"; \
			helm uninstall $$CHART \
				--namespace $(NAMESPACE); \
		fi; \
	done

[gemini-code-assist]

Defining resourceQuota within a service's Helm chart is problematic. ResourceQuota is a namespace-scoped resource. If you deploy multiple services from these charts into the same namespace, each deployment will try to create or update the same ResourceQuota object, leading to conflicts and unpredictable behavior. This configuration should be moved out of the individual service charts and applied once per namespace by a cluster administrator or a separate, dedicated Helm chart for namespace setup. This comment applies to all values-prod.yaml, values-staging.yaml, and values-prestaging.yaml files across all service charts where resourceQuota is enabled.

[gemini-code-assist]

The icon path is set to file://assets/logo.svg. This path is relative to the Chart.yaml file. Since the assets directory is at helm/assets and this chart is at helm/chat-service, the correct relative path should be file://../assets/logo.svg. This issue likely affects all the other new service charts as well.

icon: file://../assets/logo.svg

[gemini-code-assist]

The configuration for the prestaging environment has some security and reliability issues that are inconsistent with the prod environment:

• Security: securityContext.runAsNonRoot is set to false, allowing the container to run as root. The production values correctly set this to true. If the container can run as non-root, it should do so in all environments.
• Health Probes: All health probes (startupProbe, livenessProbe, readinessProbe) are disabled. The comment mentions "ChromaDB API compatibility", but the production values file successfully configures probes against the /api/v1/heartbeat endpoint. These probes should be enabled in prestaging as well to ensure environment parity and detect startup/liveness issues early.

[gemini-code-assist]

All health probes are disabled for the cleaner service with the justification that it's a background service. While it doesn't have an HTTP endpoint, it's still crucial to monitor its health. A process that has crashed or is stuck will not be detected by Kubernetes, and the pod will remain in a Running state. Consider adding an exec probe that checks if the main process is still running.

livenessProbe:
  enabled: true
  exec:
    command:
    - pgrep
    - -f
    - your_cleaner_script.py # TODO: Replace with the actual script/process name
  initialDelaySeconds: 60
  periodSeconds: 60

[gemini-code-assist]

The test command in the NOTES is a copy-paste from the chat-service and is incorrect for Redis. Redis does not have a /chat endpoint. The notes should provide a relevant command for testing Redis connectivity, such as using redis-cli. This issue of incorrect test commands is present in the NOTES.txt files for several other charts like minio and chromadb.

4. Test Redis connection:
  # Port forward first: kubectl port-forward svc/{{ include "redis.fullname" . }} 6379:6379
  # Then, in another terminal:
  redis-cli -p 6379 PING
  # Expected output: PONG

[gemini-code-assist]

The script attempts to update common-dev.yaml, but this file is not included in the pull request. This will cause the script to print a "File not found" warning when run with all or dev environments. To make the script run cleanly and to maintain consistency across environments, please add an empty common-dev.yaml file to the helm/shared-values/ directory.

[NotYuSheng]

/gemini review

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request introduces a significant and valuable standardization of Helm deployments for the OmniPDF microservices, including a shared values architecture and local CRC registry integration. The effort to create a consistent deployment process across environments is commendable. However, the review identified several critical issues, primarily related to copy-paste errors in the newly created Helm charts. Configurations from one service (like MinIO or chat-service) have been incorrectly applied to others (e.g., Redis, Nginx), which will cause deployment failures. There are also high-severity issues with chart metadata and script robustness that need to be addressed. Once these critical and high-severity issues are resolved, this will be a strong contribution to the project's infrastructure.

[gemini-code-assist]

This deployment configuration for Redis appears to be an incorrect copy of the MinIO deployment. The specified args, ports, and env variables (MINIO_ROOT_USER, MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD) are specific to MinIO and are not valid for a Redis container. This will cause the Redis pod to fail on startup. The configuration should be updated to be specific to Redis, which typically only requires the container port to be exposed and does not need these arguments or environment variables.

          ports:
            - name: redis
              containerPort: 6379
              protocol: TCP

[gemini-code-assist]

The values in this file seem to be copied from the MinIO chart and are not applicable to Redis. It includes configurations for consoleIngress, MINIO_ROOT_USER, MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD, and health checks pointing to MinIO-specific endpoints. This entire file needs to be replaced with values that are appropriate for a Redis deployment.

[gemini-code-assist]

This Nginx deployment is incorrectly configured with an environment variable for an API_KEY. As a reverse proxy, the Nginx container should not have access to service-level API keys. This appears to be a copy-paste error from another service chart and poses a security risk by unnecessarily exposing secrets. This block should be removed.

[gemini-code-assist]

The values.yaml for the nginx chart incorrectly includes a configuration section for llm. An Nginx gateway does not need LLM configuration. This appears to be a copy-paste error from another service and should be removed to avoid confusion and misconfiguration.

[gemini-code-assist]

The icon path file://assets/logo.svg is likely incorrect because the assets directory is not located within each individual chart directory. For Helm to find the file when packaging or installing, the path should be relative from the chart's root, pointing to the shared assets directory (e.g., file://../assets/logo.svg). This issue applies to all the new service charts in this PR.

icon: file://../assets/logo.svg

[gemini-code-assist]

This values.yaml file contains a default llm configuration that seems to be copied from another service. It's unlikely that all services share the exact same LLM endpoint and model. Please review and provide the correct default configuration for this service, or remove it if it's not applicable. This comment also applies to pdf-processor-service and pdf-renderer-service.

[gemini-code-assist]

The sed fallback for updating YAML files is brittle and may fail for nested keys or complex values, potentially corrupting your configuration files. For a script intended for enterprise-grade operations, it would be much safer to make yq a required dependency and remove the sed fallback. This ensures that YAML updates are always handled correctly.

[gemini-code-assist]

The install-all and upgrade-all targets contain nearly identical, duplicated logic for constructing the CHART_VALUES variable. This makes the Makefile harder to maintain. Since helm upgrade --install works for both installing and upgrading, you could merge these targets or refactor the value-file logic into a reusable block to adhere to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

[gemini-code-assist]

The default image.pullPolicy is set to Never. This is not a sensible default for a distributable Helm chart, as it will fail in any environment where the image has not been manually loaded to the nodes. It's better to default to IfNotPresent and override it to Never only for specific local development scenarios. This issue applies to several of the new charts.

  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent

[NotYuSheng]

/gemini review

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request introduces a comprehensive Helm deployment structure for the OmniPDF services, which is a great step towards standardizing deployments. The use of a Makefile and shared values simplifies management across different environments. However, there are several critical issues, primarily related to copy-paste errors in the environment-specific values.yaml files for multiple services (Redis, Nginx, and others), which could lead to incorrect configurations and deployment failures. Additionally, there are some design choices, like the precedence of Helm values files and hardcoded credentials, that pose significant risks to maintainability and security. I've provided detailed comments and suggestions to address these issues.

[gemini-code-assist]

This Helm test attempts to connect to an HTTP endpoint (/cleaner/health/live) on the cleaner service. However, the cleaner service is a background worker and has its service disabled by default (service.enabled: false in values.yaml), so it has no service endpoint to connect to. This test will always fail and block deployments that run tests.

[gemini-code-assist]

This values file appears to be a copy of the MinIO configuration, not Redis. It references the minio/minio image and sets MinIO-specific environment variables and secrets. This will cause the Redis chart to deploy a MinIO instance instead of Redis, which will break any service depending on Redis.

[gemini-code-assist]

This values file is a copy of the MinIO production configuration, not Redis. It will deploy MinIO instead of Redis, causing critical failures for services that depend on Redis.

[gemini-code-assist]

This values file is a copy of the MinIO staging configuration, not Redis. This will deploy MinIO instead of Redis, which is a critical error.

[gemini-code-assist]

The test for the Redis chart uses wget to check an HTTP endpoint. Redis is a TCP-based service and does not have an HTTP server. This test will always fail. The test should use redis-cli ping to check for connectivity, similar to the probes defined in values.yaml.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: "{{ include \"redis.fullname\" . }}-test-connection"
  labels:
    {{- include \"redis.labels\" . | nindent 4 }}
  annotations:
    "helm.sh/hook": test
spec:
  containers:
    - name: redis-cli
      image: redis:alpine
      command: ['redis-cli']
      args: ['-h', '{{ include "redis.fullname" . }}', '-p', '{{ .Values.service.port }}', 'ping']
  restartPolicy: Never

[gemini-code-assist]

The ingress configuration appears to be a copy-paste from the chat-service chart, using host: chat.company.com. This will cause routing conflicts in production.

    - host: pdf-renderer-service.company.com
      paths:
        - path: /
          pathType: Prefix
  tls:
    - secretName: pdf-renderer-service-prod-tls
      hosts:
        - pdf-renderer-service.company.com

[gemini-code-assist]

The deploy-all-charts function duplicates the logic for constructing the list of values files from the install target. This makes the Makefile harder to maintain, as any change to the values file logic needs to be updated in two places. This could be refactored to call the install target within the loop.

[gemini-code-assist]

There's an inconsistent naming convention for the service images. Some use hyphens (chat-service), while others use underscores (pdf_processor_service). The project's Kubernetes standards (mentioned in CLAUDE.md) recommend hyphens. Standardizing on hyphens for image names as well would improve consistency and maintainability.

ghcr.io/notyusheng/pdf-processor-service:dev-v0.0.1-860e67e
ghcr.io/notyusheng/pdf-extraction-service:dev-v0.0.1-860e67e
ghcr.io/notyusheng/docling-translation-service:dev-v0.0.1-860e67e

[gemini-code-assist]

The PVC for Redis is incorrectly labeled as storage.omnipdf.local/type: object-storage. Redis is a key-value store/cache, not object storage. Using accurate labels is important for resource management and policy application.

    storage.omnipdf.local/type: cache

[gemini-code-assist]

The argument parsing for the -f flag is not fully robust. If a user runs ./load-images.sh -f without a filename, the script will either fail with an unclear error or misinterpret the next argument. It's better to add a check to ensure an argument is provided for the -f option.

Suggested change

	-f|--file)
	file_mode=true
	input_file="$2"
	shift 2
	;;
	-f|--file)
	if [[ -z "$2" ]]; then
	error "Option -f requires a filename."
	fi
	file_mode=true
	input_file="$2"
	shift 2