Remove appVersion in Chart.yaml

[onedr0p]

@billimek how do you feel if we remove this field from the Chart.yaml? It seems like the field is useless for a bunch of applications that do not require a chart update when a image is updated.

My line of thinking is that the command helm list --all-namespaces -a, or the helm-exporter is not returning the correct appVersion if we update the image. That makes this metadata wrong.

Of-course the proper way to handle this is to release a new chart version on every image update, but we don't really have the time to do that since new versions get released all the time, almost daily.

[billimek]

It's a good question. I know that the helm chart default template now creates the following in the sample deployment template:

image: "{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ .Chart.AppVersion }}"

This essentially ties the image tag to the AppVersion in Chart.yaml which I think would break automation like flux. So I personally don't care for that approach.

It does seem like appVersion is extraneous. Is it a required field?

[onedr0p]

@billimek is it required field, I remember trying to remove it and the CI complaining about it.

[onedr0p]

Closing this issue.