unable to install in an air-gapped environment

[angeloxx]

Describe the bug
Installing or templating with helm, using current helm cart nginxinc/charts/nginx-ingress is not possible in an air-gapped environment due the reference, in values.schema.json, to external resources like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-json-schema/master/v1.29.0/_definitions.json event if the configuration is correct.

To Reproduce
Deploy the application in an air-gapped environment and launch

helm --version=1.2.0 template --create-namespace -f=/tmp/nginx-1.yaml ingress-tier-1 oci://ghcr.io/nginxinc/charts/nginx-ingress

and error is

Error: values don't meet the specifications of the schema(s) in the following chart(s):
nginx-ingress:
Get "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-json-schema/master/v1.29.0/_definitions.json": dial tcp 185.199.108.133:443: i/o timeout

Expected behavior
Install the controller as expected, the configuration is correct because on a connected environment, with same values, the application is installed without issues.

Your environment

• Version of the Ingress Controller Helm Chart - 1.2
• Version of Kubernetes 1.29

[github-actions]

Hi @angeloxx thanks for reporting!

Be sure to check out the docs and the Contributing Guidelines while you wait for a human to take a look at this 🙂

Cheers!

[angeloxx]

Value file is:

controller:
  ingressClass:
    name: nginx-tier-1
  tolerations:
    - key: "node-role.kubernetes.io/network-node"
      operator: "Exists"
      effect: "NoSchedule"
  pod:
    annotations:
      selector: tier-1
service:
  create: false

[brianehlert]

The project has included this schema file in the Operator to accommodate OpenShift customers in this scenario.
I believe that the schema was first separated due to concerns about its size and thus the resulting size of the chart.
If the schema was incorporated, I would love to see some effort to reduce the size of the schema itself and if that is possible.

[vepatel]

@angeloxx as a temporary measure, is it possible for you to remove the values.schema.json file (only possible if you're building from source).

@brianehlert the only way I see for now is to either:

• do same as operator i.e. move the schema to this repo (@pdabelf5 mentioned there'll be x9 increase in size of chart pkg) or
• remove the schema validation until helm introduces -skip-validation flag (finally there seems to be some traction on Proposal: disable values schema validation for charts including a values.schema.json file helm/helm#10398 with feat(helm): add --skip-schema-validation flag to helm 'install', 'uprade' and 'lint' helm/helm#12743)

[angeloxx]

@angeloxx as a temporary measure, is it possible for you to remove the values.schema.json file (only possible if you're building from source).

Yes, already applied the W/A downloading the chart and removing the file before the deploy but isn't a viable long-term solution. We still have the same issues with other charts via a wrong values.schema.json and for that reason we still waiting for the --skip-schema-validation flag in Helm (and its adoption in helmfile).

[vepatel]

@angeloxx yes the --skip-schema-validation is pretty much a requirement at this point, i guess as part of this issue we'll try to see if there's a short term solution or not, will keep you posted 👍🏼

[danielnginx]

@angeloxx The idea is to have the schema embedded in the helm chart. We will look into in the due course.

[danielnginx]

We have a PR merged to fix this issue #5493

We need to validate the fix.