Improve performance of helm install chart

Question

I have a chart that is installing a pod to kubernetes. since that Helm allows us to set values in a single chart, i decided to create a reusable chart that allows me to create multiple pod with the same chart configuration.

I'm trying to create about 10,000 pods, and using helm install is easiest way since that im reusing the chart config. I was wondering how can i improve the performance of helm install?

I tried to scale tiller-deploy to about 4, but only one of the pods that are processing the helm requests.

Example script to create 10,000 pods

created = has_created(`helm status #{$name} 2>&1`)
if !created
    `helm install --name=#{$name} --set start=#{$start} --set end=#{$until} --set key=#{$key} ./chart`
    p "deployed #{$name} release"
end

Thanks

Giancarlo Rubio Giancarlo Rubio · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-03T18:47:27

Your bottleneck is not tiller, it’s the way that you’re starting the process. What about to run this process in background or use a modern language to create this in a thread?

Improve performance of helm install chart

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