Custom helm chart - helm dep update fails with Error: stable/nginx-ingress chart not found in repo https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com

Question

How can I add stable/nginx-ingress as a dependency to my custom helm chart?

After trying a few different urls for the repository, I still have no luck.

Steps

1. Created a new helm chart with helm create and editing the Chart.yaml to be

apiVersion: v2
name: acme
description: A Helm chart for Kubernetes
type: application
version: 0.1.0
appVersion: 1.16.0
icon: https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png

dependencies:
  - name: stable/nginx-ingress
    version: ~1.34
    repository: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com

2. Executed this command helm dep update acme

The output is the following

Error: stable/nginx-ingress chart not found in repo https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com

Note

I have seen these Stack Overflow questions, but the answers were lacking explanation:

• Helm V3 - Cannot find the official repo
• Adding Nginx-Ingress/Certmanager as Dependency in Helm Charts

This question is not intended to be a duplicate. I'm not using Azure and I am using Helm 3.

Answer 1

The updated chart for helm3 is ready to use.

helm repo add ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
helm install my-release ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx

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Original

The nginx-ingress chart is not published there yet. The progress is being tracked in kubernetes/ingress-nginx#5161.

If you want to use the old chart you will need either a copy of the chart locally, or a version of the chart published to your own repo. For the local file dependency, get a copy of the current chart:

git clone https://github.com/helm/charts.git
cp -r charts/stable/nginx-ingress /path/to/acmes-parent-dir/

Then you can use a relative reference to the local directory:

dependencies:
- name: nginx-ingress
  version: "1.34"
  repository: "file://../nginx-ingress"