[INFRA][K8S] Community Test: Validate Helm Chart on Minikube & Kind across Linux, macOS, and Windows WSL2

[forgespectrayan]

🎯 Community Infrastructure Testing Call

We have recently finalized our Cell High Availability (Cell HA) Helm chart under deploy/helm/spector, featuring a split topology with stateless Ingress Gateways, authoritative Owners (StatefulSets), and async Replicas.

We are calling on DevOps engineers, SREs, and Kubernetes enthusiasts to test our Helm chart on local development clusters (Kind, Minikube, or k3s) across diverse operating systems (Linux, macOS Intel/Apple Silicon, and Windows WSL2).

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📋 What to Test

1. Cluster Spin-Up:
   • Install Spector using the local development values:

     helm repo add ... # or local:
     helm install spector-cell ./deploy/helm/spector -n spector-cell --create-namespace -f ./deploy/helm/spector/values-local-dev.yaml

2. Pod Readiness & Scheduling:
   • Verify all 4 pods reach 1/1 Running (gateway-xxx, owner-0, owner-1, replica-0).
   • Check if your local cluster's StorageClass correctly binds the 500Mi persistent volume claims (data-spector-cell-owner-0, etc.).
3. Endpoint Connectivity:
   • Access the Cortex UI dashboard on http://localhost:7700 and API on http://localhost:7070/actuator/health.
4. Platform-Specific Edge Cases:
   • Report any CSI driver issues, permission quirks with UID 1000, or CNI differences.

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✅ Acceptance Criteria & Deliverable

• Post a comment with your environment specs (OS, Architecture, K8s distro, CSI driver).
• Confirm whether helm install succeeded out-of-the-box or document any adjustments needed.
• If you find any bug or documentation gap, open a PR updating deploy/helm/README.md or values-local-dev.yaml!

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📚 Helpful Resources

• Helm Chart: deploy/helm/spector
• Local Dev Values: deploy/helm/spector/values-local-dev.yaml
• Architecture Spec: ADR-0034 Cell HA