Jason Witkowski
04/23/2026, 7:33 PM$ helmfile -e mgmt-eng diff
Decrypting secret /home/user/.workspaces/z/argoCD-factory-ops/secrets/mgmt-eng/argocd.yaml
Decrypting secret /home/user/.workspaces/z/argoCD-factory-ops/secrets/mgmt-eng/secret1484928982.yaml
command "/usr/local/bin/helm" exited with non-zero status:
PATH:
/usr/local/bin/helm
ARGS:
0: helm (4 bytes)
1: secrets (7 bytes)
2: decrypt (7 bytes)
3: /home/user/.workspaces/z/argoCD-factory-ops/secrets/mgmt-eng/secret1484928982.yaml (94 bytes)
ERROR:
exit status 1
EXIT STATUS
1
STDERR:
[helm-secrets] File does not exist: /home/user/.workspaces/z/argoCD-factory-ops/secrets/mgmt-eng/secret1484928982.yaml
Error: plugin "secrets" exited with error
COMBINED OUTPUT:
[helm-secrets] File does not exist: /home/user/.workspaces/z/argoCD-factory-ops/secrets/mgmt-eng/secret1484928982.yaml
Error: plugin "secrets" exited with error
I have the latest version of sops, helm-secrets, and helm 3.x installed.
Is this a known issue? I have tried renaming the secrets file to end in .gotmpl with no success. I've searched github and this slack but don't see anyone talking about it. The decryption seems to be working but then helm-secrets apparently can't find the file?Jason Witkowski
04/23/2026, 7:37 PMhelmfile --debug in the command i can see it decrypts the file.
after decrypting and moving to a tmp file , which is does a lot of times presumably because i have a file helmfiles it's executing over in a helmfile.d/ directory, it then proceeds to say file not found.Jason Witkowski
04/23/2026, 7:46 PMJason Witkowski
04/23/2026, 7:48 PMhelm secrets decrypt on the temp file.... but somehow we're getting the values into debug output..Jason Witkowski
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