helm secrets install ... deploys encrypted values about helm-secrets

[alexmbird]

I've gotten to the bottom of this. In case anyone else encounters the same - the problem was that I named my secrets file xyz-secrets.yaml and by convention helm-secrets only treats files named precisely secrets[.something].yaml as containing secrets. Values from others, even those containing a valid sops: section, will be deployed verbatim. Confusingly sops will happily encrypt/decrypt these files, so the problem only becomes apparent at chart deploy time.

[schollii]

Yes this is a real annoyance. I created ticket #128 for this. Seems like the fix should be really easy to allow additionally secrets-something which is more intuitive for describing the secrets file.