Question: Complete removal of old stable repo?

[mitsos1os]

Hi everyone,

I opened this issue to just get a clarification regarding the stable repo deprecation.

In case I am using the latest available version of the charts in the stable repo for some deployments and do not want to use any upgrades from the new migrated repositories, will I still be able to use them after final deprecation of stable repo? This includes manually adding the repo to Helm 3 helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com

Or will this also stop being available and I have to switch to the new repos no matter what?

Thanks!

[abatilo]

I'd love some clarification as well if the googleapis link will still work or will that go away? The wording isn't exactly clear.

[abatilo]

Maybe @scottrigby knows? Looks like he's the author for the issue that's tracking all of the other charts.

[mitsos1os]

After some searching around, in Helm depreciation docs in the section about November 13 changes, the Google buckets for stable and incubator repos are mentioned under To be removed column.... So maybe this means that they will be actually deleted?

[bacongobbler]

Yes. The cloud storage bucket hosting the stable and incubator repositories will be removed in November.

Further clarification: the operating costs of the stable and incubator repositories are a significant contributing factor. It has come to the point that it is too cost-prohibitive to host.

helm/charts will still be available as a git repository, and vendors of many of these repositories have agreed to host their charts at their own chart repositories.

See also https://github.com/helm/charts#status-of-the-project.

[mitsos1os]

I see...
@bacongobbler thanks for the clarification...!