Changelog

0.9.15

  • Bump rstudio-library chart version

0.9.14

  • Skip rstudio-library template call when chronicleAgent.autoDiscovery=false. Require chronicleAgent.serverAddress to be set instead.

0.9.13

  • Bump Workbench version to 2025.09.1

0.9.12

  • Bump Workbench version to 2025.09.0
  • Enable Positron Pro Sessions by default
  • Align Positron Pro session settings with Workbench defaults

0.9.11

  • Bump Chronicle Agent to version 2025.08.0

0.9.10

  • Fix a bug with the new ephermalStorage options where it was set every time, even if it was unset in the values.yaml.

0.9.9

  • Add options to specify resources for the Chronicle Agent container.

0.9.8

  • Allow setting ephemeral-storage limit and request for Workbench session pods via the settings launcher.templateValues.pod.ephemeralStorage.request and launcher.templateValues.pod.ephemeralStorage.limit.

0.9.7

  • Correct the README.md example to use the correct imagePullSecrets syntax for the launcher template values (launcher.templateValues.pod.imagePullSecrets).

0.9.6

  • Switch to a hardcoded default for chronicleAgent.image.tag to be regularly updated for new releases.
  • Move user provided init containers ahead of the Chronicle Agent init container in priority.

0.9.5

  • Align VSCode and Positron settings with Workbench defaults
  • Remove JupyterHub sessions by default, per Posit Workbench 2024.09.0

0.9.4

  • Add recommended labels to all PVCs created by the chart.

0.9.3

  • Bump Workbench version to 2025.05.1

0.9.2

  • Bump rstudio-library chart version to 0.1.34.
  • Adds a shortcut resource deployment for Chronicle Agent via chronicleAgent.enabled. The value is disabled by default and does not affect existing deployments that use sidecar or initContainer to deploy the Chronicle Agent.

0.9.1

  • Bump Workbench version to 2025.05.0
  • Enable audited-jobs

0.9.0

  • BREAKING: launcher.useTemplates: true is now the default. launcher.templateValues settings are the recommended way to pass values to the launcher jobs. If you must use the older job-json-overrides method, set launcher.useTemplates: false, the two methods cannot be used concurrently and will error if detected.
    • Update the README to add more information about using launcher.templateValues settings.

0.8.14

  • Add sharedStorage.subPath for parity

0.8.13

  • Add service.targetPort
  • Add pod.hostAliases and launcher.templateValues.pod.hostAliases
  • Fix pod.port: now mapped correctly in _helpers.tpl

0.8.12

  • Bump Chronicle Agent to version 2025.03.0

0.8.11

  • Bump Workbench version to 2024.12.1

0.8.10

  • Bump Workbench version to 2024.12.0
  • Bump version of launcher templates job.tpl and service.tpl
    • Populate pod initContainers from .Job.initContainers

0.8.9

  • Fix a logic bug where the resource limit key was set even if resources.limits.enabled is false

0.8.8

  • Bump Chronicle Agent to version 2024.11.0

0.8.7

  • Bump Workbench version to 2024.09.1

0.8.6

  • Pin the rstudio-library version dependency so we can update the library chart without breaking all the charts that depend on it.

0.8.5

  • Add helm unit test scaffold.

0.8.4

  • Move the values files for linting and installation testing outside the chart directory so that we can iterate on them without releasing a new version of the chart

0.8.3

  • Bump version of launcher templates job.tpl and service.tpl
    • enableServiceLinks now defaults to false for sessions (instead of not being set). To enable them for sessions, set launcher.templateValues.enableServiceLinks: true
    • Also see related discussion on the Kubernetes project

0.8.2

  • Bump Workbench version to 2024.09.0

0.8.1

  • Bump Chronicle Agent to version 2024.09.0

0.8.0

  • BREAKING: the prometheus endpoint has changed from port 9108 to 8989 by default
    • We are now using an internal prometheus endpoint with new metrics
    • As a result, the graphiteExporter sidecar has been removed
    • Some metrics from the graphiteExporter will no longer be present
    • The parent / main “off-switch” for prometheus is at prometheus.enabled
    • To revert to the old exporter, set prometheus.legacy=true (and please reach out to let us know why!)

0.7.6

  • Bump Workbench version to 2024.04.2

0.7.5

  • Add documentation about PostgreSQL database configuration and mounting passwords from secrets as env variables

0.7.4

  • Documentation site updates

0.7.3

  • Bump Workbench version to 2024.04.0

0.7.2

  • Bump Chronicle Agent to version 2024.03.0

0.7.1

  • Updates to support standalone documentation site

0.7.0

  • BREAKING: The generated service will now have type ClusterIP set by default.
  • Add support for setting the loadBalancerIP or clusterIP.
  • Ignore nodePort settings when the service is not a NodePort.
  • Improve the documentation for some service-related settings.

0.6.16

  • Update default package manager repo in config.session.repos.conf
  • Remove --verbose from args in config.server.vscode.conf
  • Add instructions for configuring R and Python repos in the README
  • Add empty JSON to rstudio-prefs.json default
  • Add documentation for databricks.conf
  • Increase readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds to 10

0.6.15

  • Add ttlSecondsAfterFinished to job.tpl for session jobs.

0.6.14

  • Add option to set pod.terminationGracePeriodSeconds
  • Add protection for prestart-launcher.bash to be OS-agnostic in certificate modification (#453)

0.6.13

  • Bump Workbench version to 2023.12.1

0.6.12

  • Bump Workbench version to 2023.12.0

0.6.11

  • Add licensing section to the README to provide guidance on using a license file, license key or license server.

0.6.10

  • Bump rstudio-library to 0.1.27
    • Fix an issue with mountPath and subPath when license.file.mountSubPath is true

0.6.9

  • Bump Workbench version to 2023.09.1

0.6.8

  • Bump Workbench version to 2023.09.0

0.6.7

  • Add native session support for pip.conf
    • In order to mount a pip.conf file to /etc/pip.conf on server and sessions, just define the file in config.session.pip\\.conf

0.6.6

  • Bump Workbench version to 2023.06.1

0.6.5

  • Add support for homeStorage.subPath (and for launcher sessions)

0.6.4

  • Add support for serviceAccount labels (rbac.serviceAccount.labels)

0.6.3

  • Fix support for pod.env on sessions

0.6.2

0.6.1

  • Bump Workbench version to 2023.06.0

0.6.0

  • BREAKING: Change default OS / OS prefix to ubuntu2204-. Bionic support is EOL as of 2023-04-30
    • If you want to revert this change, set session.image.tagPrefix=bionic- (sessions) and image.tagPrefix=bionic- ( server)
  • BREAKING: change the “home volume mount” for sessions to happen automatically, regardless of whether you define other values in config.serverDcf.launcher-mounts
    • Previously, if you specify anything in launcher-mounts, then we did not mount the home volume onto the session
    • Now, we continue to mount the home volume onto the session, unless:
      • You set session.defaultHomeMount=false
      • You have the same (or a parent) mountPath defined in an existing launcher-mounts volume
      • You have the same PVC ClaimName defined in an existing launcher-mounts volume
    • If you mount the volume yourself and want to keep doing so, you can set session.defaultHomeMount=false
    • If you mount the volume yourself and would like to stop doing so, you can now unset the home mount in launcher-mounts
  • Update documentation and README for a bit more clarity
  • Update product to version 2023.03.1
  • Allow customizing the pod.command associated with sessions for some highly custom startup cases. This should not be necessary in most cases and will be removed at a later date, once the product supports startup customization. Please reach out if you have questions about this functionality!
  • Add podDisruptionBudget values
  • Add topologySpreadConstraints values
  • Start to utilize the pod.securityContext values for pod securityContext values

0.5.32

  • Add priorityClassName to product configuration

0.5.31

  • Update documentation to make .Values.server.profiles and .Values.profiles.profiles differences more clear.

0.5.30

  • Add pod.lifecycle hook

0.5.29

  • Update documentation to remove “beta” label and explain production recommendations

0.5.28

  • Bump rstudio-library to 0.1.24
    • Update RBAC definition to support listing of service accounts

0.5.27

  • Bump Workbench version to 2022.12.0

0.5.26

  • Add a prometheusExporter.resources configuration section for consistency with the Connect chart

0.5.25

  • Add homeStorage.otherArgs and sharedStorage.otherArgs for other PVC arguments
    • This can be useful for arguments like volumeName when using a PVC that references a PV

0.5.24

  • BREAKING: remove serviceAccountName in favor of rbac.serviceAccount.name.
    • Also fix a handful of consistency issues with serviceAccount creation (##251)
    • Allow un-setting rbac.serviceAccount.name (##294)
  • Add prometheusExporter.securityContext for the ability to configure the sidecar securityContext
  • Add revisionHistoryLimit value for the Workbench deployment
    • This can be helpful particularly when CI systems such as ArgoCD leave replicasets around

0.5.23

  • Add updated templates for launcher.templateValues and session container customization
    • Add customization of securityContext and containerSecurityContext (##293)
    • Fix typo in serviceAccountName implementation (##251)
    • Add affinity and tolerations (##271 and ##283)

0.5.22

  • BREAKING: change jupyter path from /opt/python/3.6.5/bin/jupyter to /usr/local/bin/jupyter
    • This will hopefully not affect your deployment, but it depends on how your image is built
    • We have recently changed all of our images to symlink jupyter to /usr/local/bin/jupyter
  • add option and values for launcher.useTemplates and launcher.templateValues
    • this mechanism is useful for simplifying session configuration and replaces job-json-overrides
    • both will continue being used for now, but they are incompatible and will generate an error if both are used
    • Advanced topics include launcher.includeDefaultTemplates=false and launcher.extraTemplates
  • bump Workbench version to 2022.07.2-576.pro12
  • add a value for image.tagPrefix to make choosing operating system for the server image easier. Default is bionic-

0.5.21

  • Fix an issue in the startup script to verify that the dir exists

0.5.20

  • Fix an issue where chowning fails in the startup script
    • This is particularly problematic if ConfigMaps or Secrets are mounted into this directory
  • Change appVersion to reflect the new docker image naming convention: bionic-*** to include the OS in the image name.

0.5.19

  • Add a simple mechanism for snapshot testing to make stronger backwards compatibility guarantees

0.5.18

  • Add a ServiceMonitor CRD and values to configure
  • Add pod.affinity value for configuration of pod affinity
  • Fix issue where hostnames are not routable within kubernetes while load balancing
    • Because hostname output is not routable between pods, we use www-host-name=$(hostname -i) to route by IP address
    • This fixes a load balancing issue with some hard to understand asio.netdb errors

0.5.17

  • Bump rstudio-library chart version
  • Relax RBAC for pod/logs to remove write-related privileges

0.5.16

  • Add the ability to set annotations to the Persistent Volume Claim.

0.5.15

  • Bump Workbench to version 2022.02.3-492.pro3
  • Fix typo in the README

0.5.14

  • Bump Workbench to version 2022.02.2+485.pro2

0.5.13

  • Allow specifying defaultMode for most/all configMap and secret mounts
    • this should be backwards compatible. Please let us know if any issues arise
    • use cases include adding executable startup scripts, additional services, changing access for files to be more/less secure, changing permissions in accordance with different runAs, runAsGroup config.

0.5.12

  • Allow Launcher to Auto Configure Kubernetes variables
    • Removes dynamic generation of launcher.kubernetes.conf file
    • Add launcher.kubernetes.conf to default values, setting kubernetes-namespace to the value of launcher.namespace
  • Update rstudio-library chart version. Add support for lists in INI file sections.

0.5.11

  • Update docs for job-json-overrides (fix a key reference issue and link to new docs in the helm repo)

0.5.10

  • Fix ingress definition issues with older Kubernetes clusters (##139)

0.5.9

  • Upgrade Workbench to version 2022.02.1+461.pro1

0.5.8

  • Update README docs
  • Add selector for storage definition (##136)
  • Fix default permissions (0644) on pam mounts (##141)

0.5.7

  • Update logging.conf to default to output logs on stderr

0.5.6

  • Fix the version update. Our annotations were incorrect.

0.5.5

  • Update RStudio Workbench to version 2021.09.2+382.pro1 (the second patch release of 2021.09)

0.5.4

  • BUGFIX: address an important issue in RStudio Workbench load balancing
    • Ever since 0.5.0, we did not create a load-balancer file
    • This means that even “HA” installations of Workbench would function like independent nodes
    • We now touch an empty file and let the nodes report themselves to the database in this case

0.5.3

  • Make startupProbe, readinessProbe and livenessProbe more configurable (##97)
    • They still use the enabled key to turn on or off
    • We then remove this key with omit, and pass the values verbatim to the template (as YAML)

0.5.2

  • Update rstudio-library chart version. This adds support for extraObjects
  • Add extraObjects value. This allows deploying additional resources (with templating) straight from the values file!

0.5.1

  • Update rstudio-library chart version. This adds a helper for rendering Ingress resources
  • Create k8s.networking.io/v1 Ingress resource when ingress.enabled: true and Kubernetes version is >=1.19 (##117)

0.5.0

  • BREAKING: Bump RStudio version to Ghost Orchid (2021.09.0+351.pro6)
    • This version of the chart is no longer compatible (by default) with older versions (1.4 and previous).
    • Previous versions of the chart are not compatible (by default) with 2021.09 or later
    • If you want to use charts across versions, you will need to change command, args, and some configmaps.
    • RSP environment variables for user creation, licensing, etc. are now RSW
  • BREAKING: Change RStudio Workbench execution model to use supervisord
  • BREAKING: Add vscode.conf defaults. This enables VS Code sessions, which is dependent on your images having code-server installed at /opt/code-server/
  • Create diagnostics values (diagnostics.enabled and diagnostics.directory) to control diagnostic output
  • Add values to launcher.kubernetesHealthCheck to control the behavior of the “Kubernetes Health Check” that launcher runs at startup
  • Enable PAM sessions by default (i.e. auth-pam-sessions-enabled=1). This is important for proper home directory creation, for instance. Disable by setting config.server.rserver\.conf.auth-pam-sessions-enabled=0
  • Add imagePullSecrets value option (##57)
  • Add config.pam values option to add pam config files
  • Add config-maps to configure startup behavior (config.startupCustom)
  • Add a config setting for sssd (now in the container by default) (config.userProvisioning)
  • Add a “secret” configmap for session components (useful for shared database credentials, odbc.ini, etc.) (config.sessionSecret)
  • Update README to make job-json-overrides, profiles, user provisioning, etc. more clear
  • Update rstudio-library chart dependency
    • BUGFIX: Address an issue with how launcher-mounts was generated incorrectly (##108)
  • Add a pod.labels values option (##101)
  • Modify how supervisord starts sssd with config.startupUserProvisioning values option (##110)

0.4.6

  • Updated svc.yml to remove hardcoded port 80 and add .Values.service.port in its place. Updated values.yaml to include .Values.service.port (previously missing).

0.4.5

  • Update rstudio-library chart version. This adds pods/exec privilege to RBAC
    • This is important for sessions to exit properly

0.4.4

  • Added a new parameter rbac.clusterRoleCreate to values.yaml to allow for disabling the creation of the ClusterRole that allows for access to the nodes API. This API is used to ensure that all of the IP addresses for nodes are available when reporting the addresses of the node that is running a particular job so that clients can connect to it. This is generally not a needed permission for the Launcher as the internal IP is usually sufficient, so it is disabled by default.

0.4.3

  • BUGFIX: The load-balancer sidecar container was not selecting app labels properly. This is now fixed. It could have been causing issues in load-balanced setups

0.4.2

  • BUGFIX: session configuration is now mounted to the proper location on session pods
  • BUGFIX: Prometheus annotations are now properly defined (they were using the wrong port)
  • BUGFIX: The Graphite Exporter regex had a bug that did not handle certain hostnames
  • Customizing the graphite exporter “mapping.yaml” is now configurable by defining .Values.prometheusExporter.mappingYaml

0.4.1

  • Update docs

0.4.0

  • BREAKING: serviceAccountName is now rbac.serviceAccount.name for consistency with our other charts

  • BREAKING: launcher=true is now launcher.enabled = true and launcherNamespace is now launcher.namespace for consistency with our other charts

  • Breaking: Licensing configuration now uses a license section. For example, license: my-key should be changed to

    license:
  key: my-key

  • Added support for floating licenses and license files.

  • BREAKING: defaults have changed for config.server.launcher\.kubernetes\.profiles\.conf.

    • To avoid the breaking change, add the defaults to your explicitly enumerated values
    • See why this happened and an alternative forward-looking pattern below
    • The previous defaults:
config:
  server:
    launcher.kubernetes.profiles.conf:
      "*":
        default-container-image: rstudio/r-session-complete:bionic-1.4.1106-5
        container-images: rstudio/r-session-complete:bionic-1.4.1106-5
        allow-unknown-images: 1

  • BREAKING: we now automatically mount session configuration into the session pod

    • This adds default job-json-overrides using the mechanism above
    • This can be disabled by setting session.defaultConfigMount=false
    • This is useful for things like repos.conf, rsession.conf (default Connect server, etc.), etc.

  • Switch to using the rstudio-library chart for configuration generation

    • This enables putting verbatim files in place if that is preferred to values-interpolation (converting values into a config file dynamically by the chart)
    • i.e. passing a string to the configuration value will short-circuit configuration generation
config:
  server:
    some-config-file: |
      interpret-verbatim-please

  • Update appVersion to 1.4.1717-3

  • Add a new config.profiles option for configuring profiles files more naturally.

    • This will only be used if the launcher.kubernetes.profiles.conf key is not in config.server (testing for key duplication is tricky in helm, so we pick the most common key)
    • Before, we would have something like this in values.yaml:
jobJsonOverridesFiles:
  some.json: "text"
  other.json:
    - an
    - array
config:
  server:
    launcher.kubernetes.profiles.conf:
      "*":
        job-json-overrides: '"some/target:some.json","other/target:other.json"'
        container-images: "one-image:tag,two-image:tag"
  • Now, we can do something like the following. A bit more verbose, but much easier to read and understand:
config:
  profiles:
    launcher.kubernetes.profiles.conf:
      "*":
        job-json-overrides:
          - target: "some/target"
            json: "text"
            name: some
          - target: "other/target"
            json:
              - an
              - array
            name: other
        container-images:
          - "one-image:tag"
          - "two-image:tag"

  • Moreover, job-json-overrides defined under config.profiles now have inheritance within the chart. That is, * job-json-overrides are appended to everyone else’s configuration. Documentation and possible extension of this pattern to container images, etc. to follow.

  • Now hiding the rstudio-workbench container’s configuration files under /etc/rstudio as we are mounting them in different directories as defined by the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variable. This is to prevent confusion that can occur when someone edits /etc/rstudio configuration files and then sees no changes after reloading the server configuration.

  • When specifying a server for floating licensing, the RSW chart will now automatically be configured to set server-licensing-type=remote in the rserver.conf configuration file.

0.3.7

  • Make secure-cookie-key and launcher.pem autogeneration static
    • This means that the auto-generated values will persist across helm upgrades
    • It is still safest to define these values yourself

0.3.6

  • Fix small reference issue in the prestart.bash script

0.3.5

  • Decouple securityContext values from the main RSW container and the sidecar container

0.3.4

  • remove “privileged: true”, which is not necessary for rstudio-workbench server or sessions
  • Add ingress as an option
  • Add annotations to deployment so that the pods roll when config changes
  • Switch the “secret” configurations to being an actual Secret

0.3.3

  • Bump load-balancer-manager again (to 2.2)
  • Allow customization of load-balancer-manager env vars

0.3.2

  • Fix a bug in the load-balancer-manager (sidecar container)
    • The helm chart (as a result of previous changes) no longer defines an app label, but an app.kubernetes.io/name label.
    • update the selector, make error handling better, etc. This requires version 2.0 of the load-balancer-manager

0.3.1

  • allow global.secureCookieKey as an option along with secureCookieKey
  • ensure that no empty launcher.pub file is generated by default
  • default image.tag to Chart.AppVersion

0.3.0

  • BREAKING: changed rstudio container command and args to tell tini how to supervise processes and run a differently named prestart script. Also made /usr/local/bin/startup.sh script execution a part of the args.

0.2.2

  • Update Workbench version to 1.4.1106-5
  • Update docs

0.2.1

  • rename to rstudio-workbench corresponding to upcoming rstudio-server-pro rebranding
  • fix bug that was creating a test user by default
  • add other licensing options (via server, file, and secret values)

0.2.0

  • Change naming convention
    • Fix issues with namespacing
    • However, this will damage backwards compatibility, particularly for PVCs if using sharedStorage.create = true
    • If you need to migrate data, set replicas: 0, upgrade, and then copy the data to the new PVC
    • Alternatively, you can set fullnameOverride: "previous-release-name" to force backwards compatibility
    • Finally, deployment selectors have changed, so you will need to delete the current deployment manually, then put back with helm upgrade --install
    • Use helm diff upgrade to ensure things are working as you expect before upgrading

0.0.8

  • add jobJsonOverridesFiles value option

0.0.7

  • Made HA functional

0.0.5

  • BREAKING: move storage* values to a sharedStorage map
  • Add homeStorage
  • Add logging.conf

0.0.4

  • Add a secret configmap for pem and pub keys

0.0.3

  • BREAKING: Restructure the image values object
  • Add image.pullPolicy
  • Switch to image.repository and image.tag from image
  • Allow customizing pod command and args

0.0.2

  • Add database.conf and notifications.conf

0.0.1

  • Initial pass!