castai-agent namespace creation template should not be included in castai-agent helm chart

[karthiktumu]

We create all our namespaces from a centralized repo to make it easy to apply any kind of labels or annotations we desire to all the workloads running in the namespace.

Before Installing CastAI Agent to our cluster using helm, we created the required namespace (castai-agent) from the above centralized repo. When we try to run a helm install or helm upgrade to deploy castai agent into our cluster, we're running into an issue unable to render manifests for namespace resource as that already exists as shown below

Error: UPGRADE FAILED: rendered manifests contain a resource that already exists. Unable to continue with update: Namespace "castai-agent" in namespace "" exists and cannot be imported into the current release: invalid ownership metadata; label validation error: missing key "app.kubernetes.io/managed-by": must be set to "Helm"; annotation validation error: missing key "meta.helm.sh/release-name": must be set to "castai-agent"; annotation validation error: missing key "meta.helm.sh/release-namespace": must be set to "castai-agent"

Please remove the namespace creation manifest from the helm chart for castai-agent so that helm can create the namespace if needed.

I see a similar issue opened in the past but got closed # #135

[fgiannetti]

Hello!
Same problem here. I am unable to install castAI using Helm getting the same error as @karthiktumu.
Is there any workaround for this?

[geekflyer]

same issue here. including a namespace resource in the chart itself is highly unusual / uncommon practice.

[geekflyer]

update:

I found as a workaround one can set createNamespace=false as value for this chart, which disables the namespace creation in the chart. Still would prefer if this resource isn't included to begin with imo.