Install on Kubernetes with separate database fails

Install/Maintain/Configure
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I am trying to install gitea on kubernetes, using a separate(external) mariadb database.

This is the config I use for the helm chart:

# Default values for gitea.
# This is a YAML-formatted file.
# Declare variables to be passed into your templates.

replicaCount: 1

clusterDomain: cluster.local

securityContext:
  capabilities:
    add: ["SYS_CHROOT"]

image:
  repository: gitea/gitea
  tag: 1.14.2
  pullPolicy: Always
  rootless: false # only possible when running 1.14 or later

service:
  http:
    annotations:
      metallb.universe.tf/allow-shared-ip: gitea
    type: LoadBalancer
    loadBalancerIP: 192.168.80.2
    externalTrafficPolicy: Local
    port: 80
  ssh:
    annotations:
      metallb.universe.tf/allow-shared-ip: gitea
    type: LoadBalancer
    loadBalancerIP: 192.168.80.2
    externalTrafficPolicy: Local


persistence:
  enabled: true

gitea:
  admin:
    username: gitea_admin
    password: ********
    email: "gitea@local.domain"
  database:
    builtIn:
      postgresql:
        enabled: false
  cache:
    builtIn:
      enabled: false
  config:
    server:
      DOMAIN: git.kri.st
      HTTP_PORT: 3000
    database:
      DB_TYPE: mysql
      HOST: mariadb.mariadb.svc.cluster.local:3306
      NAME: gitea
      USER: gitea
      PASSWD: ********
    cache:
      ENABLED: true
      ADAPTER: memory
      INTERVAL: 60
      HOST: memcached-helm-memcached.memcached.svc.cluster.local:11211

This led to the init container getting in a CrashLoop. To debug this I generate the amnifest from the helm chart, modified the init container to go in to pause, and applied the manifest manually.

That allowed me to exec in to the init container, and run the setup script by hand.
This is part what I saw:

+ gitea migrate
2021/05/25 05:01:46 ...dules/setting/git.go:101:newGit() [I] Git Version: 2.30.2, Wire Protocol Version 2 Enabled
2021/05/25 05:01:46 cmd/migrate.go:31:runMigrate() [T] AppPath: /usr/local/bin/gitea
2021/05/25 05:01:46 cmd/migrate.go:32:runMigrate() [T] AppWorkPath: /data
2021/05/25 05:01:46 cmd/migrate.go:33:runMigrate() [T] Custom path: /data/gitea
2021/05/25 05:01:46 cmd/migrate.go:34:runMigrate() [T] Log path: /data/log
2021/05/25 05:01:46 ...om/urfave/cli/app.go:277:Run() [I] PING DATABASE mysql
2021/05/25 05:01:46 cmd/migrate.go:38:runMigrate() [F] Failed to initialize ORM engine: commands out of sync. Did you run multiple statements at once?

I noticed that nothing is created in my mariadb instance. So it appears that somehow “gitea migrate” is failing to creating the database initial layout… Why ?