Install a Neo4j standalone instance

Getting everything to work in Kubernetes requires that certain K8s objects have specific names that are referenced elsewhere. Each individual Neo4j instance is a Helm “release” and has a release name. All other names derive from this release name.
Release name must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters, - or ., and must start and end with an alphanumeric character. This guide assumes the release name is my-neo4j-release.

Install Neo4j using the deployment values.yaml file, created in Create a value.yaml file, and the neo4j/neo4j-standalone Helm chart:

helm install my-neo4j-release neo4j/neo4j-standalone -f my-neo4j.values.yaml

Example output

NAME: my-neo4j-release
LAST DEPLOYED: Wed Jul 28 13:16:39 2021
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
Thank you for installing neo4j-standalone.

Your release "my-neo4j-release" has been installed .

To view the progress of the rollout try:

  $ kubectl rollout status --watch --timeout=600s statefulset/my-neo4j-release


The neo4j user's password has been set to "bO7YDTVOgs7CS1".

Once rollout is complete you can log in to Neo4j at "neo4j://my-neo4j-release.default.svc.cluster.local:7687". Try:

  $ kubectl run --rm -it --image "neo4j:4.4.34" cypher-shell \
     -- cypher-shell -a "neo4j://my-neo4j-release.default.svc.cluster.local:7687" -u neo4j -p "bO7YDTVOgs7CS1"

Graphs are everywhere!

Run the kubectl rollout command provided in the output of helm install to watch the Neo4j’s rollout until it is complete.
```
kubectl rollout status --watch --timeout=600s statefulset/my-neo4j-release
```
Since you have not passed a password for the neo4j user, the Neo4j Helm chart has set an automatically generated one. You can find it in the Helm install output. Please make a note of it.