Description of Problem

• Facing access issue while using kustomize to access private helm repo in gitops. The ArgoCD application refers a Git repository on a branch/path having a kustomization.yaml and Kustomization yaml refers private helm nexus repo. 
• It fails with "Not Authorized" error even though repository credentials has been provided.

Additional Info

401 Unauthorized : unable to run: 'helm pull

Problem Reproduction

• Create a Argocd app pointing to a repo which has kustomisation.yaml.

apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization

helmCharts:

• name: test
  version: 1.0.0
  releaseName: test-private-repo
  includeCRDs: false
  valuesInline:
  dataKey: overriden through kustomize
  repo: ${test-privare-repo-url} * Helm repo credential are configured via repository credentials.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: test-credentials
annotations:
managed-by: argocd.argoproj.io
labels:
argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type: repository
stringData:
type: 'helm'
url: '${test-privare-repo-url}'
username: 'xxx'
password: 'xxx'

Reproducibility

• Always

Prerequisites/Environment

• ArgoCD using kustomize to load helm chart

Expected Results

• Helm chart should be pulled successfully.

Actual Results

• It fails with unauthorised error.