I have a private git repo to store the company helm charts. This git repo has .tgz and index.yaml file.
I am trying to test/re-run the existing chart locally using helm serve .
The issue I have now is, the helm serve is not serving the local private helm chart.
And the index.yaml file under ~/.helm/repository/local is empty.
cd ~/.helm/repository/local
$ cat index.yaml
apiVersion: v1
entries: {}
generated: "2019-09-29T10:38:13.526444+01:00"Also helm search local/ unable to find the chart that I am looking.
$ helm search local/
No results found$ helm repo list
NAME URL
stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
local http://127.0.0.1:8879 What I am expecting is index.yaml under ~/.helm/repository/local should has the list of private charts. And the helm search local/ would return the chart that I'm looking for.
Also I noticed the helm serve command is reseting the index.yaml file to empty instead of loading the private charts.
If you want to serve charts from a non-default directory, use helm serve --repo-path <path>.
This github issue might also be related. According to it, you'll have to add a separate repo for the locally served one, like helm repo add test http://127.0.0.1:8879/.
I could solve this problem after I had run a local chart repository server which points to the local folder with charts. helm serve --repo-path ~/.helm/repository/local. That let me run the local charts using command helm install local/{chartName}. index.yaml was regenerated after a local server running.