#helm - June 2022

Bitnami chart repo appear to be broken:

$ curl -Ss <https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami> | xmllint --format /dev/stdin
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Error>
  <Code>AccessDenied</Code>
  <Message>Access Denied</Message>
  <RequestId>3JJ1S8D309MNZNFT</RequestId>
  <HostId>JD7bxIL1yZW9N+OX4yl5JWgcL6e1TR9TMGWY2YEVYUYor2mwM8EJw9XXTS1GH8hwAY2L/Begmhc=</HostId>
</Error>

And they're working on it, just found this github issue:
https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/8433

Seems to be an intermittent issue, a retry seems to be the current workaround.

Working on drafting a Helm chart from scratch, my first ever, and could use a sounding board for suggestions and ideas on situation I'm seeing.
I currently have an initContainer that launches and executes DB migration/init steps which is fine if replicas: 1 is set but if I increase it as I would expect in a non-dev mode the initContainer pod going into a locked state as the DB isn't exclusive so I really need to find a way to execute the migration/init stageas a pod without using it as an initContainer and have the main container for the deployment hold until the migration/init pod has completed and terminated. I think this is also why my helm upgrade hangs as it launches the new deployment which hangs on the init process.

Does anyone know of an alternative thats like Infracost for Helm charts?