Release Stuck in pending-upgrade
Your best option is to wait till timeout passes, reconciliation will sort it out.
If the current release revision is invalid and you can’t wait, rollback to a known good one, and let it reconcile again.
helm rollback -n flux-system <RELEASE> <known good REVISION>
Deleting a HelmRelease
Kustomization in kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1 defines the timeout and retryInterval of reconciliation.
A deleted HelmRelease during reconciliation is considered a timeout failure and gets re-applied by the controlling Kustomization.
error Kustomization/infra-controllers.flux-system - Reconciliation failed after 5m1.877215018s, next try in 1m0s Health check failed after 5m0.030168483s: timeout waiting for: [HelmRelease/flux-system/victoria-metrics-alert status: 'NotFound']
info Kustomization/infra-controllers.flux-system - server-side apply for cluster definitions completed
info HelmRelease/victoria-metrics-alert.flux-system - HelmChart 'flux-system/flux-system-victoria-metrics-alert' is not ready
HelmChart Not Ready
Run flux reconcile source helm <repo> to fetch latest charts from repo.
HelmChart 'xxx' is not ready
Force Reconcile
If reconciliation is stuck, you could try suspend and resume.
flux suspend helmrelease <name>
kubectl get -n flux-system helmrelease/<name> -o yaml # verify config
flux resume helmrelease <name> # start reconcile