Helm prevent from adding the default chart repo on helm init

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I want to use Helm with Gitlab to deploy my services to OpenShift.

I have a Gitlab Runner deployed in OpenShift.

I already have Tiller installed in Openshift under the tiller namespace and am using the docker image docker.greater.com.au/platform/images/dtzar/helm-kubectl:latest

My system is also behind a proxy which I won't be able to get past.

As part of one of my Gitlab CI build steps I have the following:

$ helm init --client-only
Creating /root/.helm 
Creating /root/.helm/repository 
Creating /root/.helm/repository/cache 
Creating /root/.helm/repository/local 
Creating /root/.helm/plugins 
Creating /root/.helm/starters 
Creating /root/.helm/cache/archive 
Creating /root/.helm/repository/repositories.yaml 
Adding stable repo with URL: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com 
Error: Looks like "https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com" is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Get https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml: Proxy Authorization Required

My main question is I am wondering if it's possible to disable Helm from trying to add https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com as a repostiory as part of helm init?

It might be worth noting that I do not know if helm init --client-only is a required step in using helm with this setup.

I have also tried a simple helm version and the server is responding with a Proxy Authorization Required error.

Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.12.1", 
GitCommit:"02a47c7249b1fc6d8fd3b94e6b4babf9d818144e", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Error: Get https://---.---.---.---:---/api/v1/namespaces/tiller/pods?labelSelector=app%3Dhelm%2Cname%3Dtiller: Proxy Authorization Required

I've removed the IP address but it's trying to resolve the Tiller server from the wrong IP address when running this helm version command.

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kubernetesgitlabopenshiftkubernetes-helm
Did you download the binary from github pages? or, did you compiled it in pc from scratch? – Abdullah Al Maruf - Tuhin
Also what is your version? and, OS? – Abdullah Al Maruf - Tuhin
Good questions. I believe I downloaded the binaries from Github. The version for helm is Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.12.0", GitCommit:"d325d2a9c179b33af1a024cdb5a4472b6288016a", GitTreeState:"clean"} Server: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.12.0", GitCommit:"d325d2a9c179b33af1a024cdb5a4472b6288016a", GitTreeState:"clean"} OS is Windows Server 2012 for Openshift. Apologies if I haven't answered your questions correctly, I'm quite new to containers and container management etc. – L. Cooper

1 Answers

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You can define which stable repository you would like to use with option -o --stable-repo-url url.

Example: helm init --client-only --stable-repo-url https://path.to.my.repo

You could found more info here