Question: How to handle sub charts in a HelmRelease?

[Karnich]

trying to add Istio with a helmRelease. The helmRelease gets created but it fails along the way. The operator doesnt give any error but when getting the output of the helmRelease i find this:

"message": "could not update dependencies in /tmp/flux-working725546946/charts/istio: Error: no repository definition for , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Please add them via 'helm repo add'\nNote that repositories must be URLs or aliases. For example, to refer to the stable\nrepository, use \"https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/\" or \"@stable\" instead of\n\"stable\". Don't forget to add the repo, too ('helm repo add').\n",

[stefanprodan]

The Istio chart has the subcharts included in the charts dir. Flux expects for the dependencies to be fetched at runtime.

You can disable the dependencies build with skipDepUpdate:

apiVersion: flux.weave.works/v1beta1
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
  name: istio
  namespace: istio-system
spec:
  releaseName: istio
  skipDepUpdate: true
  chart:
    git: git@github.com:stefanprodan/gitops-helm
    path: charts/istio
    ref: master
  values: {}

[Karnich]

hmm this makes no difference for me.

where am i able to see these configuration options for HelmRelease?

could not update dependencies in /tmp/flux-working936516107/charts/istio: Error: no repository definition for , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Please add them via 'helm repo add'
      Note that repositories must be URLs or aliases. For example, to refer to the stable
      repository, use "https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/" or "@stable" instead of
      "stable". Don't forget to add the repo, too ('helm repo add').
    reason: UpdateDependencyFailed

[samheutmaker]

Any update on this?

[stefanprodan]

I've made a new repo to showcase how Flux can be used to install Istio, please see https://github.com/stefanprodan/gitops-istio