How Argo CD handle templates/tests directory of a helm chart?

[mikutas]

Just curious to know...
The manifests in tests seems not to be rendered on the server (the behavior itself is nice for me), but I can't find --skip-tests option is input to helm template while exploring code.

(But argocd app manifests outputs tests manifests)

[sneaker-xc3]

Could we get some input on this? Because its quite confusing...

[ChristianCiach]

The Gitops-Engine skips manifests that have a helm.sh/hook annotation with an unsupported value (like test) in this case.

See https://github.com/argoproj/gitops-engine/blob/6b2984ebc47085852a7b63a0fd0b73c52e986217/pkg/sync/ignore/ignore.go#L11

len(hook.Types(obj)) == 0 is true because the Types function only returns supported hook types: https://github.com/argoproj/gitops-engine/blob/6b2984ebc47085852a7b63a0fd0b73c52e986217/pkg/sync/hook/helm/type.go#L38

In other words: ArgoCD doesn't explicitly skip test resources. It actually skips all helm hooks with unsupported helm-hook annotations; test just happens being one of them.

[mikutas]

Thank you for a clear answer !

[DerekTBrown]

Created an enhancement request to add support for this: #19956