kubernetes-sigs / kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
Missing --enable-helm when running kustomize localize
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Description
### Eschewed features
- [x] This issue is not requesting templating, unstuctured edits, build-time side-effects from args or env vars, or any other eschewed feature.
### What would you like to have added?
I'm missing being able to set `--enable-helm` when running `kustomize localize` as i can do that with `kustomize build`.
Instead i get errors like this:
```
16:17 $ kustomize localize .
# Warning: 'commonLabels' is deprecated. Please use 'labels' instead. Run 'kustomize edit fix' to update your Kustomization automatically.
2026/06/16 16:19:25 If your target directory requires flags to build:
1. Add executable permissions for the downloaded exec binaries in '.'.
2. Run kustomize build with the necessary flags and self-verify the outputs.
name: nats
namespace: test
releaseName: nats
repo: https://nats-io.github.io/k8s/helm/charts/
valuesFile: values.yaml
version: 2.12.2
`: must specify --enable-helm
```
### Why is this needed?
I have a remote base that has a helm chart i want to inflate.
### Can you accomplish the motivating task without this feature, and if so, how?
Not without rebuilding my remote base in ways that i don't want to.
### What other solutions have you considered?
There might be an environment variable that sets this without the parameter perhaps?
### Anything else we should know?
_No response_
### Feature ownership
- [x] I am interested in contributing this feature myself! 🎉
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the `kustomize localize` command entry point and compare how `kustomize build` handles the `--enable-helm` flag. The work is complete when `localize` accepts that flag and can process a remote base containing a Helm chart without the shown error.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, helm
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100