[Question] Helm install is broken (Strimzi 0.17.0)

Hello!

Currently we are using strimzi 0.16.2 which works perfectly fine, we have tried to upgrade to 0.17.0 and we are getting following, seems like there is an issue with helm:

+ helm repo add strimzi http://strimzi.io/charts/
"strimzi" has been added to your repositories
+ helm upgrade --reuse-values --install strimzi strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator --version=$STRIMZI_VERSION --namespace=kafka --set nodeSelector.nodegroup-type=kafka
UPGRADE FAILED
Error: render error in "strimzi-kafka-operator/templates/050-Deployment-strimzi-cluster-operator.yaml": template: strimzi-kafka-operator/templates/_kafka_image_map.tpl:34:40: executing "strimzi.kafka.image.map" at <.Values.kafkaMirrorMaker2.image.repository>: nil pointer evaluating interface {}.image
Error: UPGRADE FAILED: render error in "strimzi-kafka-operator/templates/050-Deployment-strimzi-cluster-operator.yaml": template: strimzi-kafka-operator/templates/_kafka_image_map.tpl:34:40: executing "strimzi.kafka.image.map" at <.Values.kafkaMirrorMaker2.image.repository>: nil pointer evaluating interface {}.image

Any ideas ?

Thanks!

[scholzj]

Any improvements to the readme or to the docs are always welcomed. Thanks for helping with this issue.

[sgkiokas]

@klalafaryan, yes, that would make sense. I’m used to using charts that do an auto-sync based on the platform you are using. I found this issue mentioning the same strategy. Also, they mentioned that this is a good feature candidate for Helm 3, but, I couldn’t find any relevant issue opened for that yet.

@scholzj, I think this issue can be closed. Even though it’s common practice to run helm repo update before helm install, do you think it would be beneficial to update the relevant README with a tip/note? I can slip that in the https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/pull/2979 PR.