{{- $replicas := include "outline.replicas" (dict "scaleDown" .Values.scaleDown "replicas" .Values.outline.replicas) -}} {{- $startup := fromYaml (include "outline.startupProbe" .Values.outline.startupProbe) -}} {{- $upload := .Values.outline.maxUploadSize | toString -}} Outline {{ .Chart.AppVersion }} — release {{ .Release.Name }} in namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }}. {{- if .Values.ingress.enabled }} ACCESS https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }} The certificate is requested by cert-manager through the "{{ .Values.ingress.clusterIssuer }}" cluster issuer. Until it has been issued the browser shows a warning; follow it with kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} get certificate tls-{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-ingress {{- else }} ACCESS — NO INGRESS ingress.enabled is false, so this release has no Ingress and no certificate. ingress.domain is still required: it becomes Outline's URL variable, which builds every generated link, every share URL and the OIDC redirect URI. Reach the instance inside the cluster with kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} port-forward svc/{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-service 8080:80 and open http://localhost:8080. Links on the page will still point at https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }}/, and an OIDC login will only complete if that host actually resolves for the browser. {{- end }} {{ if eq $replicas "0" }} SCALED TO ZERO {{ if .Values.scaleDown }}scaleDown: true{{ else }}outline.replicas: 0{{ end }} — the StatefulSet runs with replicas: 0, so the endpoint above does not answer until you set it back and upgrade again. PVC, Secrets, Service{{ if .Values.ingress.enabled }} and Ingress stay in place, so neither the uploads nor the certificate are touched.{{ else }} and the uploads on the PVC stay in place.{{ end }} {{ end }} WHAT THE THREE 1PASSWORD ITEMS MUST CONTAIN The chart creates OnePasswordItem CRs; the operator turns each into a Kubernetes Secret whose keys are the FIELD NAMES of the 1Password item. A missing field does not fail the install — the release goes through and the pod then hangs in CreateContainerConfigError naming the key it could not find (kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} describe pod). secrets.configSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.configSecretRef }} Secret {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-secret, fields: outline-secret-key SECRET_KEY, 32 random bytes hex (openssl rand -hex 32) outline-utils-secret UTILS_SECRET, a second, independent value discovery-url OIDC issuer URL (the .well-known discovery endpoint) client-id OIDC client id client-secret OIDC client secret secrets.dbSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.dbSecretRef }} Secret {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-db-secret, field: connection-url postgres://user:password@host:5432/database secrets.redisSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.redisSecretRef }} Secret {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-redis-secret, field: connection-url redis://host:6379 On the identity provider's side the client needs this redirect URI: https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }}/auth/oidc.callback The login button is labelled "{{ .Values.outline.oidc.displayName }}" (outline.oidc.displayName). Nothing about OIDC is exercised before someone actually signs in, so a wrong issuer, secret or redirect URI surfaces as a failed login on a healthy pod. The first account to sign in creates the workspace and becomes its admin — on a fresh install, sign in yourself before handing the URL to anyone. CHANGING A SECRET'S CONTENT RESTARTS NOTHING Helm never sees the content of a OnePasswordItem, so it cannot hash it, and this chart carries no checksum annotation for secrets (it has no ConfigMap either). Pointing a *SecretRef at a DIFFERENT item rolls the pods; editing a value INSIDE the same item does not — the operator updates the Kubernetes Secret while the running container keeps the old value in its environment. After such a rotation: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} rollout restart statefulset/{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-sfs Rotating outline-secret-key invalidates existing sessions; rotating it without keeping the old value also makes previously encrypted data unreadable. Rotate the database or Redis URL and the pod restarts into whatever that new endpoint contains, empty or not. POSTGRES AND REDIS ARE NOT PART OF THIS CHART Both have to exist and be reachable before the first start. /_health checks them, and all three probes use it, so a missing database does not produce a useful error: the pod simply never turns Ready and the startup probe kills it after about {{ mul $startup.failureThreshold $startup.periodSeconds }}s. Read the container log, not the pod events. The chart pins PGSSLMODE=disable next to the connection URL. That fits a Postgres reached over the cluster network; a database anywhere less trusted needs TLS asked for explicitly, and this chart has no value for it — the outline.env block below is the place to set it. THE FIRST START MIGRATES, AND THE STARTUP PROBE IS THE CLOCK Outline runs its database migrations when the container starts. The startup probe grants {{ $startup.failureThreshold }} × {{ $startup.periodSeconds }}s = {{ mul $startup.failureThreshold $startup.periodSeconds }}s before the kubelet restarts the container — and a restart lands in the middle of a migration. Raise outline.startupProbe.failureThreshold BEFORE a large app-version jump or a first import, not after the crash loop has started. Back up the database before any app-version bump. Migrations are one-way; a helm rollback returns the old image to a database the new one has already rewritten. ONE REPLICA, ONE VOLUME Uploads are stored locally (FILE_STORAGE=local), on the ReadWriteOnce PVC {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-pvc under /outline-data/data — there is no object storage in this chart. That PVC is a plain chart object, not a StatefulSet volumeClaimTemplate, so all replicas would share the single RWO volume and the second pod usually never schedules. {{- if gt (int $replicas) 1 }} outline.replicas is {{ $replicas }}. Expect the extra pods to stay Pending on "Multi-Attach error for volume" unless the storage class is genuinely RWX. {{- end }} BACKUP IS TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME The database holds the documents and one row per attachment; the PVC holds the attachment bytes. Restoring one without the other gives a wiki with broken images or files nobody references. Snapshot them together. Because the PVC is rendered by the chart, helm uninstall deletes it and the uploads with it, unless the storage class reclaim policy says otherwise. The external database survives that — which makes an accidental uninstall look recoverable while the attachments are already gone. {{- if .Values.ingress.enabled }} TWO UPLOAD CEILINGS, THE SMALLER ONE WINS outline.maxUploadSize {{ $upload }}{{ if regexMatch "^[0-9]+$" $upload }} bytes (~{{ div (int64 $upload) 1048576 }} MiB){{ else }} — Outline reads this as a plain byte count{{ end }} ingress.maxUploadFileSize {{ .Values.ingress.maxUploadFileSize }} The smaller of the two decides, and the Ingress limit fails the more confusingly: a file above it never reaches Outline, so the user gets the ingress controller's 413 page instead of a message from the app. With the chart defaults the Ingress is the tighter of the two by a factor of ten. Raise both, or neither. {{- else }} UPLOAD CEILING outline.maxUploadSize {{ $upload }}{{ if regexMatch "^[0-9]+$" $upload }} bytes (~{{ div (int64 $upload) 1048576 }} MiB){{ else }} — Outline reads this as a plain byte count{{ end }} Without an Ingress this is the only limit the chart sets — whatever proxy you put in front adds its own, usually much smaller, body-size cap. {{- end }} THE CHART CONFIGURES NO MAIL Outline sends invitations, document notifications and digest mails over SMTP. This chart sets no SMTP_* variable at all, so those mails are quietly never sent and nothing in the UI says so. The place to add them is outline.env, which also supports the secretKeyRef form for the password. {{- if .Values.outline.env }} outline.env currently adds {{ len .Values.outline.env }} variable(s), rendered after the ones the chart sets itself. {{- end }} {{- if has (.Values.outline.forceHttps | toString) (list "true" "1") }} FORCE_HTTPS IS ON outline.forceHttps is set. The chart defaults it to "false" because the Ingress already terminates TLS and Outline trusts the forwarded protocol header. Turned on, Outline redirects to https itself — which loops endlessly if that header does not reach the pod. {{- end }}