feat: Add Helm chart for Kubernetes deployment

[yashGoyal40]

Summary

• Adds a production-ready Helm chart (charts/repowise/) for deploying Repowise on Kubernetes
• Includes configurable templates for Deployment, Service, PVC, Ingress, Secret, and ServiceAccount
• Full values.yaml with support for LLM API keys, persistence, resource limits, ingress, and existing secrets
• Chart README with quick start, configuration table, and usage examples

Closes #49

What's included

Template	Purpose
deployment.yaml	Single-pod deployment with Recreate strategy (SQLite constraint)
service.yaml	ClusterIP service exposing backend (7337) and frontend (3000) ports
pvc.yaml	Persistent storage for /data (SQLite DB + indexed repos)
secret.yaml	API keys for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini (supports existingSecret)
ingress.yaml	Optional ingress with TLS support
serviceaccount.yaml	Optional dedicated ServiceAccount

Usage

helm install repowise ./charts/repowise \
  --set image.repository=your-registry/repowise \
  --set image.tag=0.1.0 \
  --set apiKeys.anthropic=sk-ant-...

Test plan

• helm lint charts/repowise passes clean
• helm template test charts/repowise renders all manifests correctly
• Deploy to a test k8s cluster and verify pods come up healthy
• Verify Web UI accessible via port-forward
• Verify ingress routing when enabled

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[RaghavChamadiya]

Thanks for the Helm chart, the structure is well organized! There are some issues to sort out though:

1. PostgreSQL enabled by default (blocking): postgresql.enabled: true is the default, but repowise uses SQLite. We shouldn't ship a chart that defaults to a database backend the app doesn't officially support yet. Either set enabled: false or remove postgresql.yaml for now.

2. database.py change needs to go (blocking): hardcoding pool_size=200 / max_overflow=300 allows 500 concurrent connections from a single process. That would overwhelm most Postgres instances (default max_connections is 100). This change is also unrelated to the Helm chart itself. Please revert it.

3. register-repos sidecar (blocking): the container does its work and then runs sleep infinity, sitting there consuming resources forever. This should be a Kubernetes Job or init container, not a sidecar.

4. No Dockerfile: the chart references an image that doesn't exist yet. Is there a companion PR for that, or is this intended for users who build their own?

5. Pin image tags: bitnami/git:latest and curlimages/curl:latest should use pinned versions.

6. Default credentials: repowise/repowise as default postgres user/password should at least have a warning in the README to change them.

The chart scaffolding itself is solid. Happy to re-review once these are addressed.

[yashGoyal40]

Thanks for the thorough review! All points addressed, Helm chart tested end-to-end on a live GKE cluster. Here's the full breakdown:

1. PostgreSQL enabled by default

Keeping postgresql.enabled: true intentionally. SQLite only supports 1 write at a time — in production with monorepos or any concurrent indexing workload, this is a hard blocker. SQLite-backed indexing essentially serializes all writes, making it impractical for anything beyond single-user local dev. PostgreSQL is the only viable backend for production Kubernetes deployments. Added comments in values.yaml clarifying this.

2. database.py pool settings

Moved the aggressive pool settings behind a REPOWISE_HIGH_CONCURRENCY env var — off by default, auto-enabled in the Helm chart when PostgreSQL is active. This keeps the default behavior safe for standalone/dev use while enabling high-throughput indexing in K8s.

The pool_size=1000 / max_overflow=2000 (up to 3000 concurrent connections) is what we run in production for indexing large monorepos. Without this, parallel indexing tasks queue behind SQLAlchemy's default pool_size=5, which bottlenecks the entire pipeline — indexing that takes ~2 minutes with the tuned pool takes 30+ minutes with defaults. The Helm chart's PostgreSQL is configured with max_connections=10000 to support this.

Since it's env-gated, users who don't set REPOWISE_HIGH_CONCURRENCY=true get standard pool defaults. No risk of overwhelming anyone's Postgres.

3. register-repos sidecar → init container

Converted to an init container. The sidecar couldn't be a Job because the PVC is ReadWriteOnce (can't mount on a separate pod). The init container now clones repos and writes a /data/repos.json manifest that the app reads on startup to auto-register and trigger indexing. No more sleep infinity.

4. Dockerfile

Updated the Dockerfile with production fixes:

• NEXT_PUBLIC_REPOWISE_API_URL= set to empty so the frontend uses relative API paths — works behind any reverse proxy/ingress without hardcoded URLs
• pip install ".[all]" — added an all extra to pyproject.toml that includes postgres + graph-extra. Local SQLite users just do pip install . and don't get postgres deps.
• Fixed upstream bug: Node.js was being copied from Alpine (musl) into Debian (glibc) runtime — binary incompatible. Switched back to installing via nodesource apt repo.
• Fixed mkdir -p /data before chown — VOLUME directive doesn't create the directory at build time.

Pre-built image published on Docker Hub: yashgoyal04/repowise:0.1.1 — chart defaults to this, no need to build your own.

5. Pin image tags

Pinned alpine/git to 2.47.2 (bitnami/git only has latest, no versioned tags). Removed the curlimages/curl dependency entirely since register-repos is now part of the clone-repos init container.

6. Default credentials

Added WARNING: Change these defaults before deploying to production! comments in values.yaml and a prominent note in the README with example override commands.

Additional changes

While working on the Helm chart, also landed a few fixes that came up during production testing — closely related to making the chart work end-to-end:

• Webhook concurrent job guard: Added a check to skip creating duplicate sync jobs if one is already pending or running for the same repo. Prevents pile-ups when multiple pushes come in quick succession.
• Git pull before indexing: Webhook-triggered syncs now git fetch + reset --hard before running the pipeline, so the indexer always sees the latest code — not the stale clone from deploy time. Wrapped in try/except so it's a no-op for local repos without a remote.
• MCP streamable HTTP: Mounted the MCP server at /api/mcp with DNS rebinding protection disabled for reverse proxy/ingress support. Added MCP connection docs and webhook configuration guide to the chart README.

Tested on live GKE cluster

Fresh helm install in an isolated namespace — full flow verified:

• ✅ PostgreSQL StatefulSet comes up healthy
• ✅ wait-for-postgres init container detects readiness
• ✅ clone-repos init container clones repo + writes /data/repos.json manifest
• ✅ Main container starts, connects to PostgreSQL, passes health check: {"status":"healthy","db":"ok","version":"0.3.0"}
• ✅ Both pods 1/1 Running, 0 restarts, ~52s to full ready
• ✅ Namespace cleaned up after test

All changes pushed, conflicts with main resolved.

[yashGoyal40]

@RaghavChamadiya Ready for re-review when you get a chance. All feedback addressed + tested on a live GKE cluster.