Dependencies not handled in local helm charts

[frank-bee]

For local helm charts dependency update should be called before rendering them with helm template to resolve dependencies in requirements.yaml

[jessebye]

We are seeing this problem as well, using the latest k8s.helm.v3.Release. We set dependencyUpdate: true but it doesn't appear to run a helm dep up prior to the templating, so it fails.

[EronWright]

I haven't been able to repro the issue, if anyone has some repro steps, I'd appreciate it.

Let me share a detail that might bear on this. The helm dependency update command negotiates new versions for the dependencies (upgrading them based on the version constraints). Meanwhile, helm install --dependency-update updates the dependencies if they are missing. Pulumi's Release resource likewise updates conditionally. Maybe the update logic isn't being triggered for whatever reason. Do people expect that dependencyUpdate: true will always update the dependencies?

Also, it seems to me that helm dependency build is the ideal command to run, at least if a lockfile exists.