Importing a chart from a chart repository: Error locating chart

[cveld]

Terraform, Provider, Kubernetes and Helm Versions

Terraform version: 1.13.2
Provider version: 3.1.0
Kubernetes version: 1.33.2

Affected Resource(s)

• helm_release

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "helm_release" "argocd" {
  chart      = "argo"
  name       = "argocd"
  repository = "https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm"
  version    = "3.1.9"
  namespace  = "argocd-nonprod"
  values = [
    "${file("${path.module}/argocd-values/values.yaml")}",
    "${file("${path.module}/argocd-values/customized.yaml")}"
  ]
}

provider "helm" {
  debug = true
  kubernetes {
    host                   = local.aks.kube_config.0.host
    client_certificate     = base64decode(local.aks.kube_admin_config.0.client_certificate)
    client_key             = base64decode(local.aks.kube_admin_config.0.client_key)
    cluster_ca_certificate = base64decode(local.aks.kube_admin_config.0.cluster_ca_certificate)
  }
}

import {
  to = helm_release.argocd
  id = "argocd-nonprod/argocd"
}

Debug Output

log.zip

Panic Output

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Expected Behavior

Import should go fine.

Actual Behavior

│ Error: Error locating chart
│ 
│   with helm_release.argocd,
│   on helm_argocd.tf line 1, in resource "helm_release" "argocd":
│    1: resource "helm_release" "argocd" {
│ 
│ Unable to locate chart argo-cd: non-absolute URLs should be in form of
│ repo_name/path_to_chart, got: argo-cd

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[erwanval]

Hello,

I also encountered this issue today, and found a way to fix it by manually updating the tfstate (not ideal obviously).
By checking the imported resource in the state file, I noticed the repository attribute is set to "null". While, for another resource created by terraform (not imported), the value is the repository url.

$ cat tfstate.json | jq -r '.resources[] | select(.type == "helm_release") | "\(.name) --- \(.instances[].attributes.repository)"
argocd --- null                                               # imported resource
argocd_bootstrap_app --- https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm # created by terraform

By updating manually the state file to add the repository url in the attributes.repository, there is no more error.