<p>I have a helm repository set up for my CI/CD pipeline, but the one thing I am having trouble with is helm's versioning system which is focused on a semantic versioning system as in <code>x.x.x</code>. </p>

<p>I want to be able to specify tags like "staging", "latest", and "production", and although I am able to successfully upload charts with string versions</p>

<p><code>NAME               CHART VERSION   APP VERSION
chartmuseum/myrchart latest          1.0
</code></p>

<p>Any attempt to actually access the chart fails, such as</p>

<p><code>helm inspect chartmuseum/mychart --version=latest</code></p>

<p>Generates the error:</p>

<p><code>Error: failed to download "chartmuseum/mychart" (hint: running 'helm repo update' may help)</code></p>

<p>I don't really want to get into controlled semantic versioning at this point in development, or the mess that is appending hashes to a version. Is there any way to get helm to pull non-semantically tagged chart versions?</p>

mstorkson
<p>My approach to this, where I do not want to version my chart (and subcharts) semanticaly as well is not to use helm repository at all and just pull whole chart in CI/CD from git instead. If you are publishing them to wider audience this may not suit you, but for own CI/CD which is authorized to access our repositories anyway it works like charm.</p>
