Flux does not revert manual changes back to git state if source is helm

[kotnn]

Describe the bug

Hello. I just installed Flux to our on-prem k8s cluster v1.21.3. Flux version is 0.18.3.
Git is built on top of on-prem Azure Devops Server 18.181.31626.1 (Azure DevOps Server 2020 Update 1.1)
I created 2 sources for 2 kind of applications: 1) git source 2) helm source
App with git source works as a charm. Problem only with Helm source.
Details:
I put my first application with yaml and kustomization to S3, it deployed to k8s cluster successfully. Then I modify deployment manually -> change for example replicaset to another value and about one minute later replicacount roll back to git versions as excpected.
But the same scenario does not work for helm applicaton: I put HelmRepository and HelmRelease objects to Git, application appears in k8s cluster. But if i modify manually for example replicaset in deployment, this replicaset count stays infinetely in cluster despide on git values

Steps to reproduce

1. Clone my repo locally:
   git clone ssh://tfs.os33.net:22/DefaultCollection/Portal/_git/OS33K8S
2. Create "nginx-helm" folder in my Git:
   mkdir nginx-helm; cd nginx-helm
3. Create source helm repo:
   flux create source helm bitnami --url https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami --interval 1m0s --export > helmrepo-bitnami.yaml
   Content of helmrepo-bitnami.yaml:

helmrepo-bitnami.txt

4. Create helm-release:
   flux create helmrelease nginx --source=HelmRepository/bitnami --chart nginx --release-name nginx --target-namespace tst --interval 1m0s --export > helmrelease-nginx.yaml
   Content of helmrelease-nginx.yaml:
   helmrelease-nginx.txt

5. commit and push changes
   git add -A ; git commit -m "add nginx app"; git push

6. check state in k8s cluster:
   kubectl get po -n tst | grep www-5ff
   output:
   

7. edit deploy manually and set replicaCount to 3:
   kubectl edit deploy -n tst nginx

8. Replicacount staus 3 forever but must revert to 2:
   

Another moment: if i commit new change to git with new values, application is upgraded with newly commited values:

1. edit helmrelease-nginx.yaml with new value:
   replicaCount: 1
2. commit changes:
   git add -A ; git commit -m "modify nginx app"; git push
3. check k8s cluster:
   

Expected behavior

helm chart values must be revert back according to actual valies in git

Screenshots and recordings

No response

OS / Distro

ubuntu20.04 for k8s nodes, Windows 2016 as git client and Flux client

Flux version

0.18.3

Flux check

PS C:\Deployment\OS33K8S\clusters\os33dev> Flux check
► checking prerequisites
✗ flux 0.18.3 <0.19.0 (new version is available, please upgrade)
✔ Kubernetes 1.21.3 >=1.19.0-0
► checking controllers
✔ helm-controller: deployment ready
► ghcr.io/fluxcd/helm-controller:v0.12.0
✔ kustomize-controller: deployment ready
► ghcr.io/fluxcd/kustomize-controller:v0.15.5
✔ notification-controller: deployment ready
► ghcr.io/fluxcd/notification-controller:v0.17.1
✔ source-controller: deployment ready
► ghcr.io/fluxcd/source-controller:v0.16.0
✔ all checks passed
PS C:\Deployment\OS33K8S\clusters\os33dev> \

Git provider

Azure DevOps Server 2020 Update 1.1

Container Registry provider

n/a

Additional context

Flux logs attached
logs.zip

Code of Conduct

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[hiddeco]

This is expected behavior at the moment, see: fluxcd/helm-controller#186

The plan is however to support this in the future (fluxcd/helm-controller#186 (comment)), but it is blocked by a bigger unit of work that should solve some other observation issues first.

[kotnn]

thank you

[kotnn]

This is expected behavior at the moment, see: fluxcd/helm-controller#186

The plan is however to support this in the future (fluxcd/helm-controller#186 (comment)), but it is blocked by a bigger unit of work that should solve some other observation issues first.

may be any workaround for now ?

[kotnn]

working for me:
flux suspend hr nginx
flux resume hr nginx