Option to deploy development/pre-release charts?

[boxcee]

Hi everyone,

is there an option I am not seeing to pull pre-release charts?

helm has the option to search and pull pre-release versions of a chart by specifying the --devel option (by default they are omitted). I don't see any option passing an option like this to the HelmRepository or HelmRelease CRDs.

Is there a workaround? For me this is a missing feature.
We are pushing pre-release charts to our chartmuseum registry and I cannot install them using FluxV2.

[hiddeco]

Can you share a copy of your HelmRelease? Selecting prerelease ranges is possible by including a -0 in your version selector:

---
apiVersion: helm.fluxcd.io/v2beta1
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
  name: podinfo
spec:
  interval: 5m
  chart:
    spec:
      chart: podinfo
      # Only select pre-release ranges below v5.0.0
      version: ">=5.0.0-0 <5.0.0"
      sourceRef:
        kind: HelmRepository
        name: podinfo
        namespace: default

[boxcee]

apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2beta1
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
  name: podinfo
spec:
  interval: 5m
  chart:
    spec:
      chart: podinfo
      version: "^1.0.0"
      sourceRef:
        kind: HelmRepository
        name: podinfo
        namespace: default

And I was kind of expecting it to match 1.0.0-development.3, which is not true, but it should match 1.0.1-development.3 correct?

[hiddeco]

Not it will not, ^ excludes any pre-version ranges. See (and play with): https://play.golang.org/p/K1mA2H85APF

[boxcee]

Thanks a lot!