Host the charts in a standard helm registry

[ksauzz]

Describe the feature

I would like to access helm charts from CI/CD by a anonymous user w/ standard helm commands.

Is the feature request related to a problem?

Migrating the helm chart to ECR as OCI registry causes breaking changes for our CI/CD and other automation tools because:

• We have to use the different helm commands for OCI registry. see docs
• public ECR registry need authentication, not allow anonymous access.

It would be nice to host the charts in standard helm registry as well.

Describe alternatives you've considered

A description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.

• Keep hosting the charts in eks-charts.
• Host the charts in another standard helm registry(not ECR).

[LikithaVemulapalli]

Hello @ksauzz, we apologize that you are facing issues and cannot access helm charts anonymously. We cannot host helm-charts in eks-charts as eks-charts is not owned by our team and we had issues in the past co-ordinating with other team, so we had our own ECR repo to handle this efficiently, it's almost more than an year that we migrated from eks-charts to ECR public repo. We apologize but we suggest finding a different route to access helm charts for your workloads. Thanks

[ksauzz]

Thank you for the explanation.

But what I ask here is to host the chart in a standard helm registry, not in OCI registry. eks-chart is just one of the solutions. I feel ECR repo is not useful for customers, but for maintainers, so I ask here good user experience for customers. For example, our tools calls helm repo search --versions to find good candidates to upgrade, but how we do same things w/ OCI registry? We have to install/use oras and make changes to the tool for NTH only? It's not good experience for customers.

I think any official helm chart should be hosted in a standard helm chart, not OCI.