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Hi, I would like to know a bit more on the init container of your helm chart for self-hosting the pricing api. My understanding is that this init job is downloading the price and inject it in  postgresql. Am I right?

That’s correct, it corresponds to <https://github.com/infracost/cloud-pricing-api/blob/26c236ce1dc04b42833b6322dfb7d9b11484fd8d/package.json#L17|this command> in the cloud_pricing_api which downloads the pricing data and loads it into postgres .

Thank you. And regarding the weekly update, this container will be restarted/re-created?

I _believe_ the init container goes away and <https://github.com/infracost/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/cloud-pricing-api/templates/job-cron.yaml|this CronJob> does the weekly update.  (<@U01G5T1P3BL> may correct me in the morning.)

Seems to make sense to me, thanks a lot! Have a nice day.