title: helm init failed is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Failed to fetch 403 Forbidden
body: <p>is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Failed to fetch <a href="https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml" rel="noreferrer">https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml</a> : 403 Forbidden</p>
  <p>helm init start failing today, we are using helm version <code>HELM_VERSION: v2.13.0</code> in our CI/CD.</p>
  <pre><code>Adding stable repo with URL: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com 
  Error: Looks like &quot;https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com&quot; 
  is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: 
  Failed to fetch https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden
  </code></pre>
  <p>While it was working fine a day ago. Here are the logs that I received while running <code>init</code> command.</p>
  <pre><code>$ helm init --client-only
  Creating /root/.helm 
  Creating /root/.helm/repository 
  Creating /root/.helm/repository/cache 
  Creating /root/.helm/repository/local 
  Creating /root/.helm/plugins 
  Creating /root/.helm/starters 
  Creating /root/.helm/cache/archive 
  Creating /root/.helm/repository/repositories.yaml 
  Adding stable repo with URL: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com 
  Error: Looks like &quot;https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com&quot; is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Failed to fetch https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden
  </code></pre>
  <p>There are similar questions <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63947773/kubernetes-helm-not-a-valid-chart-repository">question</a> but that seems different and also I am not behind a proxy like mentioned <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/62088486/3288890">here</a>.</p>