Recently there were some changes around Debezium charts, so I’m here to explain what these changes are and the reason behind them. As you should be aware from our latest release announcement, we are going to release the first version of our Debezium Management Platform.

Debezium Management Platform aims to simplify the deployment of Debezium to various environments in a highly opinionated manner. To achieve this goal, the platform uses a data-centric view of Debezium components.

It is for us a normal evolution from Debezium Server. We have provided you with an operator to easily operate it in Kubernetes environments, and now we are providing a high-level abstraction to deploy your data pipelines leveraging the operator + Debezium Server. You can read more on the reasoning behind this new project in the Status of Debezium UI.

Until now, we published helm charts only for our Debezium Server Operator and, for those who already started to use it, you should know that we publish it on charts.debezium.io. For those of you with keen eyes, you should have noticed two things:

This is because, since the charts grew from 1 to 2, we decided to unify our charts so that you can easily find them in a single place. This place is charts.debezium.io.

Until now, the operator charts were released through the debezium-operator-manifest repo that was used not only for generating the helm chart repo index but also to publish the chart artifact. Starting from now, our chart packages (Debezium operator and Debezium platform) will be published as GitHub release artifacts on their respective repositories and, as described before, the helm chart index will contain both chart releases.

Essentially, we have integrated the charts release into our Debezium release process, eliminating the manual steps done in the past with the operator chart release.

What does it change for you?

If you already used the helm repo, you can just run:

so your index will be updated, then if you run:

you can see that debezium-platform has appeared in the index together with the debezium-operator.

If you want, for example, to install our Debezium Platform, you can run the following:

If instead, you have never used Debezium Helm chart, and you want to start playing with the Debezium Operator or the Debezium Platform, add the repository with:

Lastly, we have also started to publish our Helm charts as OCI artifacts to quay.io, in which case you can install our charts with the following command:

Practically nothing changes for you, but we wanted to share what changed under the hood.

As usual, any feedback is always welcomed.