Helm failing to fetch https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/ resulting in failing tests

[axsaucedo]

Currently helm is failing when fetching https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/.

The logs appear as follows:

helm repo add stable 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: failed to fetch https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden

This issue does seem to appear quite a lot online and seems it may not be necessary so the fix may just require removing that from the helm install (eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61954440/how-to-resolve-https-kubernetes-charts-storage-googleapis-com-is-not-a-valid)

[ssainz]

Solved this problem by removing the registry config file and cached repository indexes.

type helm | grep registry-config and helm | repository-config to find the default location for them, and then delete them.

[doschkinow]

This workaround does not work for me. I am having the same issue, but with https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com:

(base) [opc@bastion ~]$ helm repo add svc-cat https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com
Error: looks like "https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com" is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: failed to fetch https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden
(base) [opc@bastion ~]$ helm version
version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.4.2", GitCommit:"23dd3af5e19a02d4f4baa5b2f242645a1a3af629", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.14.13"}

This worked in the past, wondering what has changed...

[jlamb1]

@doschkinow google retired that URL and threw a 401 instead of a 301 for some reason. You want to use https://charts.helm.sh now. something like helm init --stable-repo-url https://charts.helm.sh/stable

[doschkinow]

@jlamb1 Thanks! But this does not help:

[opc@frankfurt ~]$ helm repo list
NAME URL
stable https://charts.helm.sh/stable
gitpod https://charts.gitpod.io
[opc@frankfurt ~]$ helm repo add svc-cat https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com
Error: looks like "https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com" is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: failed to fetch https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden

I need the svc-cat charts from https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com, they are not in the stable helm repo.

[doschkinow]

resolved: a workaround for me was to get the service catalog charts not from google but directly from github:

helm repo add svc-cat https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/service-catalog

Still would be interesting to know why https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com does not work ...

[Eugst]

helm repo add "stable" "https://charts.helm.sh/stable" --force-update
https://helm.sh/blog/new-location-stable-incubator-charts/

[nkovacic]

helm repo add "stable" "https://charts.helm.sh/stable" --force-update gives me an Error: unknown flag: --force-update on helm 3.x.

Directly using helm repo add "stable" "https://charts.helm.sh/stable" works.

[ozbillwang]

https://helm.sh/blog/new-location-stable-incubator-charts/

helm repo list
helm repo add "stable" "https://charts.helm.sh/stable"
helm repo add "common" https://charts.helm.sh/incubator
helm repo update

option --force-update is not accepted

[ye]

--force-update seems to be a Helm v3 version directive. If you are on helm v2, leaving that part out should work.