Helm with Kustomize uses wrong kubernetes version when templating

[ChampiYann]

Describe the bug I cannot add an application that uses a Helm chart with Kustomize if the Helm has a minimum kubeVersion requirement higher than v1.20.0 even though the cluster is running kubernetes version 1.23.x This is the same issue as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75008850/kustomize-helm-error-on-chart-semver-requirements

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install the Openshift GitOps operator on a 4.10.36 Openshift cluster
2. Edit the argocd/openshift-gitops resource in namespace openshift-gitops and add kustomizeBuildOptions: '--enable-helm' to the specs
3. Create a repo with a kustomize file referencing a helm chart with a minimum kubeVersion requirement higher than v1.20.0. For example:

   apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
   kind: Kustomization
   metadata:
     name: jira-data-center
   
   helmCharts:
   - name: jira
     version: 1.8.1
     repo: https://atlassian.github.io/data-center-helm-charts
     valuesFile: values.yaml
     releaseName: jira-data-center
   

4. Add a values.yaml file to the repo (this can be the default values.yaml file)
5. Add an application to ArgoCD referencing the repo
6. See error

Expected behavior The application is created

Screenshots Error message:

Unable to create application: application spec for jira-test is invalid: InvalidSpecError: Unable to generate manifests in kustomize/envs/prd: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Manifest generation error (cached): `kustomize build .kustomize/envs/prd --enable-helm` failed exit status 1: Error: accumulating resources: accumulation err='accumulating resources from '../../base': '.kustomize/base' must resolve to a file': recursed accumulation of path '.kustomize/base': Error: chart requires kubeVersion: >=1.21.x-0 which is incompatible with Kubernetes v1.20.0 Use --debug flag to render out invalid YAML : unable to run: 'helm template jira-data-center .kustomize/base/charts/jira --values /tmp/kustomize-helm-1206483794/jira-kustomize-values.yaml' with env=[HELM_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp/kustomize-helm-1206483794/helm HELM_CACHE_HOME=/tmp/kustomize-helm-1206483794/helm/.cache HELM_DATA_HOME=/tmp/kustomize-helm-1206483794/helm/.data] (is 'helm' installed?)

The folder structure the slightly different here than in the reproduction steps, but the kustomize file in env/prd has base as only resource, so the situation is similar.

Additional context According to the stackoverflow entry mentioned above, it looks like Helm falls back to a default kube version, maybe because it has no reference to the cluster.

[ChampiYann]

The same deployment works with the ArgoCD community operator by the way.