helm init failed is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Failed to fetch 403 Forbidden

is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Failed to fetch https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden

helm init start failing today, we are using helm version HELM_VERSION: v2.13.0 in our CI/CD.

Adding stable repo with URL: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com   Error: Looks like "https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com"   is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached:   Failed to fetch https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden  

While it was working fine a day ago. Here are the logs that I received while running init command.

$ helm init --client-only  Creating /root/.helm   Creating /root/.helm/repository   Creating /root/.helm/repository/cache   Creating /root/.helm/repository/local   Creating /root/.helm/plugins   Creating /root/.helm/starters   Creating /root/.helm/cache/archive   Creating /root/.helm/repository/repositories.yaml   Adding stable repo with URL: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com   Error: Looks like "https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com" is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: Failed to fetch https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/index.yaml : 403 Forbidden  

There are similar questions question but that seems different and also I am not behind a proxy like mentioned here.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65407317/helm-init-failed-is-not-a-valid-chart-repository-or-cannot-be-reached-failed-to December 22, 2020 at 06:47PM