Ah, I think I understand the confusion now. I guess you're wanting to do something like `helm install https://github.com/some/url` and that doesn't work. But I was assuming you were consuming the chart in the same repo, or including it via a submodule, such that the chart would be a local file reference.

Sorry for the confusion!

To use a URL, I think you'd either have to push up the packaged chart as a .gzip file in your repo (which is annoying), or you'd have to package up the chart and create a GitHub release with the resulting gzip file to be able to reference it that way. In GitLab you might be able to point to a pipeline artifact[0] after packaging the chart using GitLab CI.

In one experimental project[1], I'm using GitLab Pages to package and publish the index. It works out surprisingly well, but has some shortcomings.

[0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/pipelines/job_artifa... [1]: https://gitlab.com/charts/charts.gitlab.io

`helm install path/to/chart/directory`