ARTIFACTORY: How to pull JFrog Charts using Helm remote repository

This article is to guide you in configuring the Artifactory Helm repository to cache the JFrog charts. This will be useful in a restricted environment to use the JFrog charts. 

Steps to Configure the Helm Repository

1. Create a Helm remote repository ‘helmremote’ with the URL https://charts.jfrog.io and keep the “Chart Base URL” field blank. 
2. Create a new Helm virtual repository ‘helmvirtual’ and add the remote repository ‘helmremote’ to the virtual repository.
3. Download the index.yaml from UI → Application → Artifactory → Artifacts → helmvirtual and verify that index.yaml has all the URL fields rewritten by Artifactory URL. 
4. Configure the ‘helmvirtual’ to the Helm client and run the helm commands to fetch the charts.

To add the repo:

helm repo add helmvirtual http://ARTIFACTORY_HOST/artifactory/api/helm/helmvirtual --username username --password <encoded_password>

To find the available charts:

helm search repo helmvirtual

To download the charts:

helm fetch helmvirtual/artifactory
helm fetch helmvirtual/postgresql
helm fetch helmvirtual/jfrog-platform

Snippets for Reference

Remote repository:



A snippet of the Index.yaml:

 artifactory-ha:
  - apiVersion: v2
    created: 2023-05-08T13:54:29.413875269Z
    description: "Universal Repository Manager supporting all major packaging formats, build tools and CI servers."
    digest: 65880ead6e7b70a97b96f99f7c337840fd54d5a03fddab3395781448086d8ae8
    home: https://www.jfrog.com/artifactory/
    icon: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfrog/charts/master/stable/artifactory-ha/logo/artifactory-logo.png
    keywords:
    - artifactory
    - jfrog
    - devops
    maintainers:
    - email: installers@jfrog.com
      name: Chart Maintainers at JFrog
    name: artifactory-ha
    sources:
    - https://github.com/jfrog/charts
    urls:
    - https://localhost/artifactory/api/helm/helmvirtual/artifactory/api/helm/jfrog-charts/artifactory-ha-107.55.13.tgz
    type: application
    kubeVersion: '>= 1.14.0-0'
    dependencies:
    - name: postgresql
      repository: https://charts.jfrog.io/
      version: 10.3.18
    appVersion: "7.55.13"
    version: "107.55.13"

  Helm Commands:

$ helm repo add helmvirtual http://localhost/artifactory/api/helm/helmvirtual --username admin
Password:
"helmvirtual" has been added to your repositories

$ helm search repo helmvirtual|head -10
NAME                                CHART VERSION    APP VERSION    DESCRIPTION
helmvirtual/artifactory             107.55.13        7.55.13        Universal Repository Manager supporting all maj...
helmvirtual/artifactory-cpp-ce      107.55.13        7.55.13        JFrog Artifactory CE for C++
helmvirtual/artifactory-ha          107.55.13        7.55.13        Universal Repository Manager supporting all maj...
helmvirtual/artifactory-jcr         107.55.13        7.55.13        JFrog Container Registry
helmvirtual/artifactory-oss         107.55.13        7.55.13        JFrog Artifactory OSS
helmvirtual/common                  0.0.4            0.0.4          A Library Helm Chart for grouping common logic ...
helmvirtual/distribution            102.17.0         2.17.0         A Helm chart for JFrog Distribution
helmvirtual/helm-hub-sync           0.1.3            0.1.3          DEPRECATED - helm-hub-sync Helm chart
helmvirtual/ingress-nginx           4.5.2            1.6.4          Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX a…

$ helm fetch helmvirtual/artifactory
$ helm fetch helmvirtual/postgresql
$ helm fetch helmvirtual/jfrog-platform

$ ls -1
artifactory-107.55.13.tgz
jfrog-platform-10.12.2.tgz
postgresql-10.3.18.tgz

Cached Charts:




Ref:
https://jfrog.com/help/r/jfrog-artifactory-documentation/kubernetes-helm-chart-repositories