[SOLVED] Pact Broker Deploy with Helm fails: not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached

Pact Broker Deploy with Helm fails: not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached

I'm following the instructions in the documentation, but getting this output:

C:\temp\helm-v3.11.1-windows-amd64\windows-amd64>helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
"bitnami" has been added to your repositories

C:\temp\helm-v3.11.1-windows-amd64\windows-amd64>helm repo add pact-broker https://pact-foundation.github.io/pact-broker-chart/
Error: looks like "https://pact-foundation.github.io/pact-broker-chart/" is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Get "https://pact-foundation.github.io/pact-broker-chart/index.yaml": dial tcp 185.199.110.153:443: connectex: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

Because the first repo add succeeds, I conclude that I have no problems with network connection or proxy. I can open the .yaml file mentioned in the error message, but the url without yaml gives http 404. I guess there is something wrong with the documentation.

Please advise..

Solution

I don't know why but somehow our proxy was letting bitnami but not pact-broker. I added proxy environment variable as described here and was able to add the chart.