1. Percona Operator for MongoDB is deployed. See if the operator Pod is running: kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name=psmdb-operator --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} Check the operator logs if the Pod is not starting: export POD=$(kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name=psmdb-operator --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} --output name) kubectl logs $POD --namespace={{ .Release.Namespace }} 2. Deploy the database cluster from psmdb-db chart: helm install my-db percona/psmdb-db --namespace={{ .Release.Namespace }} Read more in our documentation: https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mongodb/