Add the ability to specify additional manifests via values

[ksoftirqd]

Often secrets can be stored externally in a secret manager solution and used in Kubernetes via the Secret Store CSI driver. This requires creating an additional resource SecretClassProvider.

It would be great to be able to do that as part of deploying the mirrord-operator helm chart. So that the external secret that contains the operator's license can be created as a Kubernetes secret and made available to the app.

As an example, this is how cert-manager does it in their helm chart (1,2).

E.g.:

extraObjects:
  - apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
    kind: SecretProviderClass
    metadata:
      name: mirrord-license-secret
    spec:
      provider: gcp
      parameters:
        secret: [...]

This would allow to deploy mirrord-operator using just one chart without the need to create a wrapper chart or separate static manifests elsewhere to make the license data available.

Thanks

[linear]

MBE-1456 Add the ability to specify additional manifests via values