Polaris Helm Chart

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The Apache Polaris project provides an official Helm chart for deploying Polaris on Kubernetes. The chart supports a wide range of configuration options, including persistence backends, authentication, scaling, observability, and more.

The chart is available in the official Apache Polaris Helm repository.

Documentation🔗

  • Production Installation: Instructions for deploying Polaris in a production environment, including how to add the Helm repository and set up scaling.

  • Authentication: Configuration guide for internal authentication (RSA/symmetric keys) and external authentication with OIDC identity providers.

  • Persistence: Configuration guide for persistence backends, including PostgreSQL (JDBC) and MongoDB (NoSQL).

  • Services & Networking: Configuration guide for Kubernetes services, Ingress, and Gateway API.

  • Development & Testing: Developer-oriented instructions for local development with Minikube, building from source, and running chart tests.

  • Chart Reference: Complete reference of all available Helm chart values and their descriptions.

Quick Start🔗

To quickly get started with the Polaris Helm chart:

helm repo add polaris https://downloads.apache.org/polaris/helm-chart
helm repo update
helm upgrade --install polaris polaris/polaris --namespace polaris --create-namespace

📝 Note

For Apache Polaris releases up to 1.3.0-incubating, the --devel flag is required for helm invocations. Helm treats the -incubating suffix as a pre‑release by SemVer rules, and will skip charts that are not in a stable versioning scheme by default.

For production deployments, see the Production Installation guide.