Helm converts integers to scientific notation even when quoted

[beeradb]

What happened

Our build uses git commit hashes for container tags during the build and then runs our helm chart tests using all the build containers for that specific commit. We had an instance this morning where the tag was completely numeric. As such, the tag got converted to scientific notation.

I was able to find some documentation on this at https://docs.helm.sh/chart_best_practices/#make-types-clear (thanks!), but I was surprised to find out that the behavior persists even when quoting the value when installing the chart via the CLI.

Reproducing this is simple, just run:

helm install stable/minio --set imageTag="1234567"

And observe the following status on the resulting pod: "InvalidImageName"

What I expected to happen

I understand type coercion between all these sources can be difficult. However, I would propose that if the value is quoted when using the CLI, it should be treated as a string and not an integer.

[bacongobbler]

closing as a duplicate of #1707.

[jesselang]

Related to #3155