How can I redeploy a HelmRelease which failed?

[frank-bee]

Is there a way to set a HelmRelease to "dirty" in order to trigger manually a redeployment? Via flux CLI or via code

[frank-bee]

one way seems to be to do a helm uninstall

[stefanprodan]

The helm chart failed or the chart got successfully downloaded but the release failed? If the chart failed, then fixing the repository URL/auth/etc would trigger a HelmRelease install.

[frank-bee]

sorry , the Release failed ( in my case because access to the container regestry was not properly set-up yet)

[stefanprodan]

I edited the title to reflect your question :)

[hiddeco]

You likely want to enable retries for Helm install actions, this can be configured in your HelmRelease as follows:

spec:
  install:
    remediation:
      retries: 3 # NB: setting it to `-1` results in infinite retries

[jurgenweber]

Seems sub optimal that I need to go an make a PR and add code to to kick something?

[hiddeco]

https://fluxcd.io/flux/components/helm/helmreleases/#forcing-a-release