dograh/deploy/helm/dograh

Dograh Helm chart

Deploys Dograh on Kubernetes with decomposed backend workloads (web, ARQ workers, telephony singleton, campaign singleton), Next.js UI, and coturn for WebRTC media relay. Implements the architecture defined in HELM_DEPLOYMENT_PLAN.md at the repo root.

Status

v1, alpha. Validated with helm lint and helm template. Not yet exercised against a live cluster.

Quick start

cd deploy/helm/dograh

# Install with defaults (all internal deps, Gateway API exposure).
# The bundled Postgres/Redis/MinIO are in-chart manifests on official upstream
# images — no `helm dependency` / subchart pull step needed.
helm install dograh . \
  --set secrets.ossJwtSecret="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" \
  --set secrets.turnSecret="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" \
  --set exposure.gatewayApi.gatewayClassName=istio

See examples/values-single-node.yaml, examples/values-managed.yaml, and examples/values-aws.yaml for topology-specific overrides.

Architecture summary

Workload	Replicas	Strategy	Notes
dograh-web	2 (HPA opt)	RollingUpdate	Long-lived WS, graceful drain
dograh-arq-worker	1 (HPA opt)	RollingUpdate	Stateless
dograh-ari-manager	1 fixed	Recreate	Telephony singleton
dograh-campaign-orchestrator	1 fixed	Recreate	Campaign singleton (in-memory locks)
dograh-ui	2 (HPA opt)	RollingUpdate	Next.js SSR
dograh-coturn	1	Recreate	LoadBalancer Service, port-pinned

HTTP traffic: Gateway API (default) or Ingress (fallback). TURN traffic: dedicated L4 Service of type LoadBalancer.

Decisions log

These are choices the chart made where HELM_DEPLOYMENT_PLAN.md was silent. Each is exposed in values.yaml for operator override.

• terminationGracePeriodSeconds for web: 600s. Covers a 10-minute call; tune to your call-length distribution.
• preStop sleep: 15s. Conservative window for the gateway/ingress to observe pod NotReady and stop dispatching new connections.
• Liveness probes on singletons: exec (pgrep). No HTTP endpoint exists on ari-manager / campaign-orchestrator; process-alive check is the simplest correct signal.
• HPA on web / workers / ui: CPU(/memory), disabled by default. Templates exist for all three tiers (web-hpa.yaml, arq-worker-hpa.yaml, ui-hpa.yaml) but every autoscaling.<tier> block ships enabled: false — flip on per tier with a knowing eye. CPU/memory is a poor signal for the WS-heavy web tier and a coarse one for the IO-bound ARQ workers (plan: queue-depth / active-call scaling, see TODOs); it is a reasonable signal for the Next.js UI.
• Singleton replica counts: hard-coded. No replicaCount knob exposed on ari-manager / campaign-orchestrator. Prevents accidental kubectl scale corrupting in-memory dedup state.
• MinIO browser exposure: shared host, path prefix /voice-audio/. Mirrors current nginx behavior. Operators wanting a separate hostname can override by editing httproute-minio.yaml or ingress.yaml post-install.
• NetworkPolicy: not in v1. TODO below.
• ServiceMonitor / Prometheus: not in v1. TODO below.
• TURN TLS (turns://): not in v1. Original docker-compose exposed port 5349 but never wired certs. Chart scopes v1 to plain TURN.

/tmp audit (review fix #6)

Resolved. End-of-call artifacts (recordings, transcript) are uploaded to object storage directly from the web process (api/services/workflow_run_artifacts.py) before the ARQ completion job is enqueued; the job carries only the workflow run id. No file handoff crosses a pod boundary, so web and arq-worker pods need no shared volume. The remaining /tmp uses (audio_file_cache.py, knowledge_base_processing.py) write and read within a single process.

Open TODOs (deferred from v1)

• Leader election for singletons. Adopt Kubernetes lease-based leader election so ari-manager / campaign-orchestrator can run HA. Until then, replicas remain hard-coded to 1.
• Connection-count HPA metric. Expose active WS sessions per pod (Prometheus or KEDA) and replace CPU/memory HPA target.
• NetworkPolicy. Add default-deny + explicit egress to Postgres, Redis, MinIO/S3, and (for ari-manager) Asterisk.
• ServiceMonitor. First-class Prometheus integration once observability stack is selected.
• TURN TLS (turns://). Wire certificate paths through coturn config and document the cert-manager pattern.
• MinIO public route via separate hostname. Make /voice-audio/ path-prefix the default but allow operators to opt into a dedicated hostname.
• KEDA for ARQ workers. When a queue-depth or active-calls metric is available, switch ARQ from CPU HPA to KEDA-driven scaling. Keep autoscaling.workers.enabled=false when a KEDA ScaledObject owns the Deployment so the chart doesn't render a competing HPA.

Validation

cd deploy/helm/dograh

helm lint .
helm template test-release . > /tmp/render-default.yaml
helm template test-release . -f examples/values-single-node.yaml > /tmp/render-single.yaml
helm template test-release . -f examples/values-managed.yaml > /tmp/render-managed.yaml
helm template test-release . -f examples/values-aws.yaml > /tmp/render-aws.yaml
helm template test-release . -f examples/values-k3s-prod.yaml > /tmp/render-k3s.yaml

Spot-check expectations:

• Deployment/<release>-ari-manager has replicas: 1 and strategy.type: Recreate.
• Deployment/<release>-campaign-orchestrator has replicas: 1 and strategy.type: Recreate.
• Deployment/<release>-web has terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 600 and a lifecycle.preStop exec hook.
• Liveness probe on ari-manager / campaign-orchestrator uses exec, not httpGet.

Layout

deploy/helm/dograh/
├── Chart.yaml
├── values.yaml             # heavily commented
├── values.schema.json      # enforces mode enums
├── README.md               # this file
├── examples/
│   ├── values-single-node.yaml
│   ├── values-managed.yaml
│   ├── values-aws.yaml
│   └── values-k3s-prod.yaml
└── templates/
    ├── _helpers.tpl
    ├── NOTES.txt
    ├── serviceaccount.yaml
    ├── configmap.yaml
    ├── secret.yaml
    ├── migrate-job.yaml
    ├── web-deployment.yaml
    ├── web-service.yaml
    ├── web-hpa.yaml
    ├── web-pdb.yaml
    ├── arq-worker-deployment.yaml
    ├── arq-worker-hpa.yaml
    ├── ari-manager-deployment.yaml
    ├── campaign-orchestrator-deployment.yaml
    ├── ui-deployment.yaml
    ├── ui-service.yaml
    ├── ui-hpa.yaml
    ├── ui-pdb.yaml
    ├── coturn-deployment.yaml
    ├── coturn-service.yaml
    ├── coturn-configmap.yaml
    ├── gateway.yaml
    ├── httproute-api.yaml
    ├── httproute-ui.yaml
    ├── httproute-minio.yaml
    └── ingress.yaml