Using GCP bucket as helm chart repository

[williambrode]

In flux 1 I was able to use a Google storage bucket as a helm chart repository like this:

chart:
    repository: gs://bucket-name/
    name: foo-bar
    version: 0.6.2

But with flux 2 I've been struggling to figure out how to adapt this to the helm repository. It says using gs:// is not supported and using https for the bucket fails with an error about converting yaml to json. Does anyone know how to do this or what change would be needed on flux 2 to support it?

[hiddeco]

See: https://toolkit.fluxcd.io/guides/helm-operator-migration/#no-longer-supports-helm-downloader-plugins

With an alternative approach documented here: https://toolkit.fluxcd.io/guides/helmreleases/#cloud-storage

[williambrode]

Thanks for the info! I'm using chart museum but the problem I've found is it doesn't reload the data from storage while its running. So sending to GCS doesn't actually work (unless I'm missing something). You would need to send to chart museum which requires a lot more configuration.