New Location For Stable and Incubator Charts

[PanOS1]

in helm-operator v1.2.0 the version of helm2 is

bash-5.0# helm2 version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.16.3", GitCommit:"1ee0254c86d4ed6887327dabed7aa7da29d7eb0d", GitTreeState:"clean"}

But according to that page stable helm repository URL changed and helm v2.17.0 uses the new stable repository URL.

Will be a new helm-operator version using helm version 2.17.0 ?

[chrisjholly]

Hi @PanOS1 - There is a workaround in the CNCF slack: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/CLAJ40HV3/p1609242081045300?thread_ts=1608719917.436400&cid=CLAJ40HV3

[stromvirvel]

@chrisholly-skyuk What's the workaround? I cannot access this Slack channel.

[chrisjholly]

Copy and pasted from slack for @stromvirvel

Having the same issue when using helm 2 and helm 3. with helm 3 it works. however in helm 2, the default location for repositories.yaml still contains the old stable location. we @Chris Holly solved this by mounting our own repositories.yaml with the new stable location.

extraVolumeMounts:
  - name: repositories-yaml
    mountPath: /var/fluxd/helm/repository/repositories.yaml
    subPath: repositories.yaml
    readOnly: true
extraVolumes:
  - name: repositories-yaml
    secret:
      secretName: repositories-yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
type: Opaque
metadata:
  name: repositories-yaml
  namespace: fluxcd
data:
  repositories.yaml: 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```

[josuevalverde12]

For those of you using the upgrade command:

helm2 upgrade -i helm-operator fluxcd/helm-operator \
    --namespace flux \
    --set 'extraVolumes[0].name=repositories-yaml-custom' \
    --set 'extraVolumes[0].secret.secretName=flux-helm-repositories' \
    --set 'extraVolumeMounts[0].name=repositories-yaml-custom' \
    --set 'extraVolumeMounts[0].mountPath=/var/fluxd/helm/repository/repositories.yaml' \
    --set 'extraVolumeMounts[0].subPath=repositories.yaml' \
    --set 'extraVolumeMounts[0].readOnly=true' \
    --set 'secretName=flux-helm-repositories'

Then create the secret (mine above is called flux-helm-repositories): kubectl create secret generic flux-helm-repositories

And finally populate it with the data in @chrisjholly's answer (repositories.yaml).

[davidkarlsen]

the mount will work, but then the repo list is static. We have an old cluster, with some helm v2 based installs, which point at the repo via CR:

apiVersion: helm.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
  name: metallb
  namespace: lbx
spec:
  releaseName: metallb-lbx
  resetValues: true
  chart:
    repository: https://your.favourite.repo/somedir <-- ?

having to harvest all the repos and put in the file to mount is a bit painful.

[kingdonb]

Sorry if your issue remains unresolved. The Helm Operator is in maintenance mode, we recommend everybody upgrades to Flux v2 and Helm Controller.

A new release of Helm Operator is out this week, 1.4.4.

We will continue to support Helm Operator in maintenance mode for an indefinite period of time, and eventually archive this repository.

Please be aware that Flux v2 has a vibrant and active developer community who are actively working through minor releases and delivering new features on the way to General Availability for Flux v2.

In the mean time, this repo will still be monitored, but support is basically limited to migration issues only. I will have to close many issues today without reading them all in detail because of time constraints. If your issue is very important, you are welcome to reopen it, but due to staleness of all issues at this point a new report is more likely to be in order. Please open another issue if you have unresolved problems that prevent your migration in the appropriate Flux v2 repo.

Helm Operator releases will continue as possible for a limited time, as a courtesy for those who still cannot migrate yet, but these are strongly not recommended for ongoing production use as our strict adherence to semver backward compatibility guarantees limit many dependencies and we can only upgrade them so far without breaking compatibility. So there are likely known CVEs that cannot be resolved.

We recommend upgrading to Flux v2 which is actively maintained ASAP.

I am going to go ahead and close every issue at once today, Thanks for participating in Helm Operator and Flux! 💚 💙