helm repo update

update information of available charts locally from chart repositories

Synopsis

Update gets the latest information about charts from the respective chart repositories. Information is cached locally, where it is used by commands like ‘helm search’.

You can optionally specify a list of repositories you want to update. $ helm repo update <repo_name> … To update all the repositories, use ‘helm repo update’.

helm repo update [REPO1 [REPO2 ...]] [flags]

Options

  -h, --help               help for update
      --timeout duration   time to wait for the index file download to complete (default 2m0s)

Options inherited from parent commands

      --burst-limit int                 client-side default throttling limit (default 100)
      --color string                    use colored output (never, auto, always) (default "auto")
      --colour string                   use colored output (never, auto, always) (default "auto")
      --content-cache string            path to the directory containing cached content (e.g. charts) (default "~/.cache/helm/content")
      --debug                           enable verbose output
      --kube-apiserver string           the address and the port for the Kubernetes API server
      --kube-as-group stringArray       group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
      --kube-as-user string             username to impersonate for the operation
      --kube-ca-file string             the certificate authority file for the Kubernetes API server connection
      --kube-context string             name of the kubeconfig context to use
      --kube-insecure-skip-tls-verify   if true, the Kubernetes API server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
      --kube-tls-server-name string     server name to use for Kubernetes API server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
      --kube-token string               bearer token used for authentication
      --kubeconfig string               path to the kubeconfig file
  -n, --namespace string                namespace scope for this request
      --qps float32                     queries per second used when communicating with the Kubernetes API, not including bursting
      --registry-config string          path to the registry config file (default "~/.config/helm/registry/config.json")
      --repository-cache string         path to the directory containing cached repository indexes (default "~/.cache/helm/repository")
      --repository-config string        path to the file containing repository names and URLs (default "~/.config/helm/repositories.yaml")

SEE ALSO

• helm repo - add, list, remove, update, and index chart repositories

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