Bamboo deployment on Kubernetes reinitialized after any helm upgrade operation

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Summary

Bamboo deployment on Kubernetes gets reinitialized after any helm upgrade operation.

Diagnosis

  1. Obtain the default Bamboo values.yamlfile from the chart:

    1 helm show values atlassian-data-center/bamboo > values.yaml
  2. Confirm all keys in the section labeled UNATTENDED-SETUP are present in the configuration. (If any key are not added, Bamboo will run the setup stage whenever Helm chartsis update)

Cause

Caused by BAM-21542 - Partial unattended installation doesn't work at k8s environment.

Solution

Ensure all keys in the sections labeled UNATTENDED-SETUP are added up-front as part of Bamboo values.yaml.

Updated on March 12, 2025

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