I am using helm and the file 101_initial_cluster.yaml from the Vitess example to setup my initial cluster. The example has a schema initialization using SQL string as shown below:
schema:
initial: |-
create table product(
sku varbinary(128),
description varbinary(128),
price bigint,
primary key(sku)
);
create table customer(
customer_id bigint not null auto_increment,
email varbinary(128),
primary key(customer_id)
);
create table corder(
order_id bigint not null auto_increment,
customer_id bigint,
sku varbinary(128),
price bigint,
primary key(order_id)
);
I would like to replace this with a file initial: my_initial_keyspace_schema.sql. From the Vitess documentation I can see Vitess does allow for this using ApplySchema -sql_file=user_table.sql user, but I would like to initialize using the helm file.
This would be very helpful as it is very tedious to organize and paste the schema as a string. Tables that depend on others have to be pasted first and the rest follow. Forgetting makes Vitess throw an error.
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I'm afraid there is no out-of-the-box feature to enable initializing DbSchema directly from SQL file in the current state of Vitess Helm chart. You can identify any of its configurable parameters via helm inspect <chart_name> command.
However, you can try customizing it to match your needs in following ways:
Stay with ApplySchema {-sql=} mode
but let the SQL schema be slurped from static file as a part of Helm chart template
(e.g. from static/initial_schema.sql location):
So just add a piece of control flow code like this one:
{{ if .Values.initialSchemaSqlFile.enabled }}
{{- $files := .Files }}
{{- range tuple "static/initial_schema.sql" }}
{{ $schema := $files.Get . }}
{{- end }}
{{ else }}
# Default inline schema from Values.topology.cells.keyspaces[0].schema
{{ end }}Check more on using Helm built-in Objects like File here