[FEATURE] support helm repo add

[devopsmash]

It will be great if you can add support for helm repo add for your helm charts by turning your GitHub Repo Into a Helm Chart Repo

more info can be found here:

• https://helm.sh/docs/topics/chart_repository/#github-pages-example
• https://helm.sh/docs/howto/chart_releaser_action/
• https://github.com/helm/examples

[feraio]

Thank you for this suggestion about adding helm repo add support, @devopsmash.
I'm passing this along to our team who will evaluate it. If you have any additional use case or a personal scenario, we'd appreciate to include it into the context for this topic.

We appreciate you taking the time to provide this insight, and we'll update this thread once we have more information to share.

[devopsmash]

Hi @feraio,

Thank you for your comment.

In my opinion, working with remote Helm chart repositories is significantly easier when you don't need to download the Helm chart file each time.

I typically work with ArgoCD to manage my Helm charts. ArgoCD natively supports remote Helm chart repositories, making application lifecycle management (such as upgrades) significantly easier (link).

Here are some examples for many common services that support remote Helm charts repositories:

• ingress-nginx: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/tree/main/charts/ingress-nginx
• kube-prometheus-stack: https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack
• OpenTelemetry: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/tree/main/charts/opentelemetry-collector

[snk-actian]

Hi @feraio

I defiinitely agree on @devopsmash about that. I have same use case with ArgoCD, and could not make it work with direct .tgz link.

[thekoma]

Just notices this issue. I have made a two lines PR that could help #656

[feraio]

Hello guys! Thanks for your input, I've just shared this topic with our team considering latest information and we will have more information soon.

We are also finishing some details to enable contributions to our repositories in a easier way.