Helmrelease cannot find Helmsource

Question

When I try to apply Helmrelease Flux cannot find the source but the source actually exists.

I use Artifact Registry (GCP) for Helm chart repo. Here is the Flux command I used to create it:

flux create source oci regapp-repo \
--url=oci://us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/XXXXXX/regapp-helm-charts/regapp-chart \
--tag=0.1.0 \
--interval=10m \
--namespace=development \
--secret-ref=artifact-registry

The commnd is working, here is the corresponding logs (flux get sources all -A):

NAMESPACE   NAME                            REVISION                SUSPENDED   READY   MESSAGE
development ocirepository/regapp-repo       0.1.0@sha256:fbb4b784   False       True    stored artifact for digest '0.1.0@sha256:fbb4b784'

But the problem is when I'm trying to create a Helm release using the command:

flux create hr regapp-release \
--interval=10m \
--source=HelmRepository/regapp-repo.development \
--chart=regapp-chart \
--chart-version="0.1.0" \
--namespace=development

finally I'm getting the following error: ✗ client rate limiter Wait returned an error: context deadline exceeded

and if we chek logs (using kubectl get events -n development --field-selector type=Warning) we will see:

LAST SEEN   TYPE      REASON              OBJECT                                 MESSAGE
13h         Warning   SourceUnavailable   helmchart/development-regapp-release   failed to get source: HelmRepository.source.toolkit.fluxcd.io "regapp-repo" not found

Answer 1

Your source is not a helmRepository, you created an ociRepository, so your command should look like this:

  flux create hr regapp-release \
--interval=10m \
--source=OCIRepository/regapp-repo.development \
--chart=regapp-chart \
--chart-version="0.1.0" \
--namespace=development