Resource not getting created when added to chart

[nicogl]

I have a HelmRelease already deployed and running in my cluster. The Chart.yaml file as well as /templates folder containing all Helm resources/manifests is pointed by the HelmRelease manifest.

Then I edited one of the yaml files in the /templates folder to add a new resource (i.e. ClusterRole) and commited the change to the repository.
A reconciliation process is triggered but when I query the ClusterRoles in the cluster, the one I added doesn't appear.
I tried manually running the flux reconcile command for the kustomization and helmrelease, but didn't work.

Why this resource change/addition is not being recognized by Flux? Shouldn't it realize about the difference between repository yaml and cluster state and try to syncronize accordingly?

Thanks

[hiddeco]

Did you also bump the chart version in your Chart.yaml? This is a requirement for changes to be noticed and picked up.

[nicogl]

Thanks @hiddeco

In fact I didn't do it... because I don't know what "bumping the chart version" exactly mean. I guess you're referring to this excerpt in the Flux documentation: "There is one caveat you should be aware of: to make the source-controller produce a new chart artifact, the version in the Chart.yaml of the chart must be bumped."

Note that I'm handing my Helm charts with Git repository, not Helm repository, so I have to comply with above statement.
As a side note, I cannot use Helm repository because I'm using AWS ECR which doesn't support it yet.

I tried removing/commenting the version property in the Chart.yaml, like:

#version: 1.0.0

but in this case I keep on getting the message: "HelmChart 'flux-system/flux-system-mf-helmrelease' is not ready"

I also tried removing the value of the property, like leaving it empty:

version:

but didn't work either.

What does "bump the version" mean then?

Thanks again!

[hiddeco]

Changing the version, e.g. v0.0.1 ->v0.0.2.

[nicogl]

Cool! That made the trick!
Any suggestion on automating the version increasing when changes are made to the chart templates?
Thank you very much!

[hiddeco]

The change you are waiting for is fluxcd/source-controller#308, which makes it possible to automatically rebuild the chart (with build metadata added to the SemVer) by configuring a flag.