Automatically Roll Deployments (HelmRelease)

[adberger]

For DEV stage we sometimes have enabled the following feature:
rollme annotation

We use a latest image tag which gets overriden by the developers and with the help of the rollme annotation when helm upgrade is performed, the new latest image gets applied (if pullPolicy is set accordingly).

This doesn't seem to work with flux/helm-controller because no changes are detected by the kustomize-controller from the source repository reference and therefore no helm reconiliation gets triggered.
I expected that the HelmRelease itself will do some rendering (helm template) and compare the generated manifest with the applied one, detects differences and then do a helm upgrade via reconciliation, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

So my question is: Is it possible to reach the same functionality with flux?