#18101 method to provide credentials to private helm repositories Issue created by cburroughs Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have a helm chart in pants, and I'd like to depend on another helm chart in a private chart repository. The chart works fine with

helm repo add

(showing up in

~/.config/helm/repositories.yaml

), but trying to use a chart from that repository with causes pants to fail with

401 Unauthorized

. Looking in the sandbox, I can see that we set

HELM_CONFIG_HOME=__config

which is empty:

__config/

0 directories, 0 files

So it makes sense that it is unauthorized as no authentication is being provided. Describe the solution you'd like I like a way to have pants use credentials to access private helm repositories. Describe alternatives you've considered • helm doesn't support

.netrc

files, and I presume pants's sandbox would thwart that anyway helm/helm#9586 • Embedding the username/password in the url given to pants, which is a non-starter for config that gets checked in. Additional context • The docs have a section on publishign charts, https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/helm-overview#publishing-helm-charts and I admit that makes me feel like I'm missing something because how would publishing work without authentication? • Sealing away the

~/.config/helm

feels correct in some sense, but is also inconsistent with how pant treats docker and kubectl. pantsbuild/pants