# App Manager: GitOps w/ Helm Chart?

**URL:** <https://community.replicated.com/t/app-manager-gitops-w-helm-chart/1076>\
**Category:** Packaging an application\
**Tags:** kots, gitops, app-manager, helm\
**Created:** [December 21, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/app-manager-gitops-w-helm-chart/1076 "2022-12-21T17:00:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.replicated.com/dex/32/26_2.png) [@dex](https://community.replicated.com/u/dex)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/app-manager-gitops-w-helm-chart/1076/1 "2022-12-21T17:00:59Z")

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Hi folks 👋 - i have an example app with a helm chart and some manifests [wordpress-enterprise/manifests at main · dexhorthy/wordpress-enterprise · GitHub](https://github.com/dexhorthy/wordpress-enterprise/tree/main/manifests)

I did a GitOps deploy to this directory: [Updating App Name to version 1 · dexhorthy/gitops-deploy@1843583 · GitHub](https://github.com/dexhorthy/gitops-deploy/commit/184358317c8c4f15d85e1f72f68047a95ec501bd), and noticing that the helm chart was excluded from the manifests.

Is there a way to get App Manager / KOTS to push the raw helm TGZ or the templated manifests? Do i have have to opt into the `useHelmInstall: false` thing? Is that functionality still on the way to deprecation and to be avoided? I have confirmed that [setting useHelmInstall to false](https://github.com/dexhorthy/wordpress-enterprise/commit/b9c5be973efb8b1c8c1bbb7e49aeeb1e4a692d34) does cause [the helm manifests to be pulled into the gitops commit](https://github.com/dexhorthy/gitops-deploy/commit/a068a5e1140adf0610d14580d5e7fc7e1d1c6b27).

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Parker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.replicated.com/alex_parker/32/777_2.png) [@Alex\_Parker](https://community.replicated.com/u/Alex_Parker)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/app-manager-gitops-w-helm-chart/1076/2 "2022-12-21T18:01:42Z")

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GitOps is not supported with the “Native Helm” functionality (`useHelmInstall: true`). See the limitations [here](https://docs.replicated.com/enterprise/gitops-workflow#limitations).

`useHelmInstall: false` is not currently deprecated, but it should be considered effectively deprecated. The Native Helm approach is the approach we’ll focus on moving forward. We need a migration path from Replicated Helm to Native Helm before we can officially deprecate it though.