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charts/aisix-cp/README.md.gotmpl rendered only the header, badges, description, maintainers, requirements, the "Private PostgreSQL CA trust" section and the values table. No prerequisites, no install, no upgrade, no uninstall — so a user reading it hit a render-time rejection with no documented way forward, because the chart refuses to render while secrets.masterKey, secrets.betterAuthSecret, postgresql.auth.password or postgresql.auth.postgresPassword still hold their placeholders.

This gives it the structure charts/aisix/README.md.gotmpl already has, adapted to the control plane:

  • Prerequisites — Kubernetes v1.23+ / Helm v3+, the four secrets with their openssl one-liners, why the database passwords must be URL-safe (the DSN embeds whichever role serves application connections, which is postgres by default), and that the master key has to be carried forward across upgrades or the encrypted rows and the gateway CA key become unreadable.
  • Installhelm repo add, a pinned --version, both the values-file and --set forms, reaching the console with a port-forward to the api service (cp-api proxies the dashboard), the trusted-origin rule that governs sign-in at any other address, first-run signup, and where the gateway image the console hands out comes from (api.dpImagedocker.io/api7/aisix:<appVersion>).
  • Upgrade — own values file rather than --reuse-values, control plane before gateways, and the upgrade-floor refusal.
  • Uninstall — the PVC and the resource-policy: keep Secret that survive it.
  • Configuration examples — external PostgreSQL, the existing private-CA section (kept verbatim, demoted under this heading), a console served from another origin (api.corsAllowedOrigins), OpenShift (no pinned UID since 1.3.0, the bundled-PostgreSQL SCC flags, and how to pin the pre-1.3.0 UIDs back), and the metrics ServiceMonitor.

The version and appVersion in the snippets come from chart.version / chart.appVersion, so they follow the chart rather than needing a hand edit each release.

Every snippet was run against the chart in this branch: the placeholder rejection fires for each of the four secrets, all of the values-file and --set forms render, and the external-database, private-CA, CORS, OpenShift, pinned-UID and ServiceMonitor examples each produce what the text claims (the DSN, the mounted CA volume, the joined origins list, the subchart security contexts turned off, the three pod security contexts, the ServiceMonitor). helm lint passes. helm-docs --chart-search-root=charts leaves every other chart's README untouched, and the aisix-cp values table is byte-identical — it stays mostly undescribed until the upstream values.yaml switches to helm-docs # -- comments, which is tracked separately in the control-plane repository.

No Chart.yaml change: the chart's rendered output is untouched, and this repo has merged README-only and template-only changes without a version bump before.

Fixes #391

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  • Documentation
    • Expanded AISIX control-plane Helm chart documentation with architecture, prerequisites, installation, upgrades, uninstall guidance, and available configuration parameters.
    • Added guidance for external PostgreSQL, private CA trust, cross-origin console access, OpenShift deployments, gateway attachment, and Prometheus metrics.
    • Clarified database credential requirements by deployment mode, including application secrets, bundled PostgreSQL credentials, and external database password options and validation.
    • Updated the values-recovery command to include the deployment namespace.

The chart's README rendered only the header, maintainers, requirements, the
private-CA section and the values table. A user reading it met a render-time
rejection with no documented way forward: the chart refuses to render while
secrets.masterKey, secrets.betterAuthSecret, postgresql.auth.password or
postgresql.auth.postgresPassword still hold their placeholders, and none of
that was written down anywhere the chart ships.

Give it the structure charts/aisix already has, adapted to the control plane:
Prerequisites (the four required secrets, why the database passwords must be
URL-safe, why the master key has to be carried forward), Install (repo add,
pinned --version, reaching the console through cp-api, first-run signup, the
gateway image default), Upgrade (own values file rather than --reuse-values,
control plane before gateways), Uninstall (what survives it), and
configuration examples for an external database, the existing private CA
section, a console on another origin, OpenShift, and metrics.

Every snippet renders against this chart; the values table is unchanged.
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The AISIX control-plane chart documentation now covers prerequisites, database-specific secrets, installation and lifecycle commands, external PostgreSQL, cross-origin access, OpenShift settings, private CA trust, and Prometheus metrics.

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AISIX control-plane documentation

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Deployment and operations documentation
charts/aisix-cp/README.md, charts/aisix-cp/README.md.gotmpl
Documents prerequisites, mode-specific secret requirements, installation, upgrades, uninstall behavior, gateway configuration, external PostgreSQL, and private database CA trust.
Cross-origin and platform configuration
charts/aisix-cp/README.md.gotmpl
Documents publicBaseURL, allowed-origin validation, OpenShift security contexts, PostgreSQL overrides, shared-memory requirements, and fixed UID/GID settings.
Prometheus monitoring documentation
charts/aisix-cp/README.md.gotmpl
Documents the separate aisix_cp_ metrics listener and Service, including ServiceMonitor configuration.

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In `@charts/aisix-cp/README.md.gotmpl`:
- Line 166: Update the helm get values command in
charts/aisix-cp/README.md.gotmpl at lines 166-166 to include the aisix
namespace, then regenerate charts/aisix-cp/README.md so the corresponding
command at lines 174-174 contains the same correction.
- Around line 37-39: Update the prerequisite and upgrade sections in both README
files to describe credential requirements by database mode: always require the
two application secrets, require postgresql.auth credentials only when
postgresql.builtin=true without postgresql.auth.existingSecret, and require
externalDatabase.password only for external mode without
externalDatabase.existingSecret. Remove wording that implies four values are
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The prerequisites listed four required secrets, which is the bundled-database
case rather than the rule: templates/secret.yaml validates the two application
secrets in every mode but the postgresql.auth.* pair only when
postgresql.builtin is true and postgresql.auth.existingSecret is empty, and
external mode instead needs externalDatabase.existingSecret or
externalDatabase.password — with neither, external-db-secret.yaml fails the
render on its own `required`. Split the list accordingly and say what external
mode requires.

Also pass the release namespace to `helm get values`: the documented release
lives in the aisix namespace, and the command otherwise searches whichever
namespace the operator's context points at.

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README content only; snippets verified against the chart with helm template and helm lint.

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