Image Updater 'write-back-target' fails path resolution for Helm 'values.yaml' external to 'source.path' in ApplicationSet

[JOLLA99]

Kind : Question

Description

Hi Team, I am using ArgoCD Image Updater with ApplicationSet + Helm and 'write-back-method:git'

My Repository structure looks like this :

repo-root/
├── helm-chart/
│   └── Chart.yaml
└── environments/
    └── dev/
        └── values.yaml

In my ApplicationSet, the Helm Chart is defined as:

spec:
  source:
    repoURL: https://github.com/...
    path: helm-chart
    targetRevision: HEAD
    helm:
      valueFiles:
        - ../environments/{{path.basename}}/values.yaml

For Image Updater, I configured:

metadata:
  annotations:
    argocd-image-updater.argoproj.io/write-back-method: git
    argocd-image-updater.argoproj.io/write-back-target: helmvalues:environments/dev/values.yaml

Problem

When Image Updater performs a write-back, it creates or modifies:

'helm-chart/environments/dev/values.yaml'

instead of updating:

'environments/dev/values.yaml'

From the behavior, it seems that write-back-target is resolved relative to 'spec.source.path (helm-chart/)' instead of the repository root.
The commit and push succeed but the file path being updated is not the intended one.

According to the documentation, absolute paths (starting with /) should be resolved with respect to the repository root.
However, in my setup they appear to be resolved relative to .spec.source.path.

Questions

1. Is it expected that 'write-back-target' is always resolved relative to '.spec.source.path', even when specifying an absolute path (e.g. '/environments/dev/values.yaml')?
2. If absolute paths are intended to be resolved from the repository root, is there any configuration I might be missing in this setup?

Image Updater logs show successful commit and push. However, the modified file path does not match the values file referenced in helm.valueFiles.

Version

argocd:v3.2.0
argocd image updater:v1.0.2

[dkarpele]

Hello,
If you want to use annotations that start with argocd-image-updater.argoproj.io you have to set up useAnnotations option: https://argocd-image-updater.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.1/configuration/applications/#reading-configuration-from-application-annotations

But this is not available with argocd image updater:v1.0.2. Consider updating to v1.1.1