Freeze installed chart version in HelmRelease about helm-controller HOT 6 CLOSED

What prevents you from just pinning it to the right version?

Asking because I can see this all go wrong when doing e.g. a disaster recovery, where the dependency has moved on but your values (that are basically married to a version of whatever chart you make use of) still think an older version applies.

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What prevents you from just pinning it to the right version?

Because the version is not necessarily known at that point. Lets say we have a big kustomize base with x helmreleases of internally developed services, if somebody installs that base into a new environment the should get the latest stable releases.

Asking because I can see this all go wrong when doing e.g. a disaster recovery, where the dependency has moved on but your values (that are basically married to a version of whatever chart you make use of) still think an older version applies.

That's actually a good point, another way might be be to let the reconciler write the elected chart version to its own spec if freezeVersion is set. (What the default is doing with * if no version is set).

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That's actually a good point, another way might be be to let the reconciler write the elected chart version to its own spec if freezeVersion is set. (What the default is doing with * if no version is set).

Mhm this would only work if no version was set. Actually I would just need a way to change the default behavior of setting * as spec.chart.version. In my case it should set the elected version.

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That's actually a good point, another way might be be to let the reconciler write the elected chart version to its own spec if freezeVersion is set. (What the default is doing with * if no version is set).

If it would write it to its own (in-cluster) spec this would not make any difference in case of a disaster recovery? (Assuming Flux2 is used, and the source of truth is in Git).

Actually I would just need a way to change the default behavior of setting * as spec.chart.version. In my case it should set the elected version.

Can't this be done by using an "elected version" Kustomize overlay that is kept in sync together with the values?

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Can't this be done by using an "elected version" Kustomize overlay that is kept in sync together with the values?

Reckon something like this will be the alternative yes.

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Due to the reason provided in #212 (comment), we are not planning on supporting this.

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