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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-present Open Networking Foundation <info@opennetworking.org>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-ONF-Member-Only-1.0
+kind: Deployment
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Values.name }}
+spec:
+  replicas: {{ .Values.replicas }}
+  revisionHistoryLimit: 10
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      name: {{ .Values.name }}
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        name: {{ .Values.name }}
+    spec:
+      initContainers:
+      - name: wait-di-api
+        image: curlimages/curl:7.78.0
+        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+        command: ['sh', '-c', "until curl -I -s -k https://{{ .Values.diAddr }}; do echo waiting for gateway svc; sleep 2; done"]
+      containers:
+      - image: "{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}"
+        imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.image.pullPolicy }}
+        name: {{ .Values.name }}
+        command:
+        - "./di-metrics-exporter"
+        - "-S"
+        - {{ .Values.diAddr | quote }}
+        - "-t"
+        - {{ .Values.periodToQuery | quote }}
+        - "--watch"
+        - "--watch-period"
+        - {{ .Values.watchPeriod | quote }}
+        {{- range $i, $val := .Values.subnets }}
+        - {{ $val | quote }}
+        {{- end }}
+      {{- if hasKey .Values.image "pullSecrets" }}
+      imagePullSecrets:
+        {{- range .Values.image.pullSecrets }}
+        - name: {{ . | quote }}
+        {{- end }}
+      {{- end }}