HttpRepository source implementation?

[danielr1996]

Hey folks,

so far I'm pretty happy with flux, every software that I wanted to install in my cluster has either a provided helm chart or git managed kubernetes yamls so I can easily write a HelmRelease or Kustomization for it. However now I wanted to install k0smotron and they only provide their install.yaml on their website, but not in a git repository or as a helm chart, for now the only option I'm left with is to copy this yaml and put it in my own git repository and install it with a kustomization. This isn't a major issue for me, but I wondered:

Could we have HttpRepository CRD to support generic kubernetes manifests from a webserver?

What do you think, could a HttpRepository benfit the flux ecosystem, or is this such a niche use case that it's not worth the effort? On one hand http is such a ubiquitos protocol that is easy to implement that an additional repository should not be too much of an overhead. On the other hand besides k0smotron I didn't really encounter any project that doesn't have either a helm chart or git managed manifests, so maybe it's better to encourage the k0smotron project to at least provide their manifests in a git repository?