Helm repository source changes after v3.0.2 (v0.16.2) - the future for helm.nginx.com?

[Syntaf]

Hey all, first off love the work the team has done for this chart; nginx-ingress has been my go-to solutions for the last couple of years when spinning up a new project in my K8S cluster.

I looked into upgrading from chart version 0.17.1 to 0.18.0 today and noticed that my helm chart repository source is no longer listed anywhere in the docs:

# Chart.yaml
# ...
dependencies:
  - name: nginx-ingress
    version: "0.17.1"
    repository: "https://helm.nginx.com/stable"

It looked like 0.16.2 was the last version to mention this repo source, version onwards are now using an OCI registry?

I don't see any release notes or deprecation warnings around the https://helm.nginx.com/stable repository source. Is it still safe to use this repo source for chart versions, and is there a migration guide to the OCI registry if this source will be going away soon?

Thanks for any info!

[lucacome]

Hi @Syntaf

The repo is not going away anytime soon, and we'll be sure to mention it in the release notes if the time comes. It's just that OCI is the preferred way 🙂

If you want to switch to OCI, it's pretty simple, you just need to replace

repository: "https://helm.nginx.com/stable"

with

repository: "oci://ghcr.io/nginxinc/charts/nginx-ingress"

and you're good to go!

[Syntaf]

Thanks a lot @lucacome!

[brianehlert]

Is there further input here that we need to address?

[Syntaf]

Luca was able to help answer my question 👍 -- nothing more from me