connectors errors in 5.8.6

[jason-da-redpanda]

What happened?

seems there is something up for connectors in helm/operator. with 5.8.6 ..

When applying with the following yaml

apiVersion: cluster.redpanda.com/v1alpha1 kind: Redpanda metadata: name: redpanda spec: chartRef: chartVersion: 5.8.6 clusterSpec: storage: persistentVolume: enabled: true size: "27Gi" connectors: enabled: true logging: level: info external: domain: customredpandadomain.local statefulset: initContainers: setDataDirOwnership: enabled: true

Encounter this error when it tries to create the connectors ..
,"error":"template: redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml:84:37: executing \"redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml\" at <$.Subcharts.connector>: wrong type for value; expected map[string]interface {}; got interface {}"}

Same yaml works fine in 5.8.5

Applying this way reports the same :

helm upgrade --install redpanda redpanda/redpanda --namespace jbarlow --create-namespace --set connectors.enabled=true 
Error: UPGRADE FAILED: template: redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml:84:37: executing "redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml" at <$.Subcharts.connector>: wrong type for value; expected map[string]interface {}; got interface {}

These are logs from a customer that report it too

customer logs:

install.go:200: [debug] Original chart version: ""
install.go:217: [debug] CHART PATH: /Users/pmw/Library/Caches/helm/repository/redpanda-5.8.6.tgz


Error: template: redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml:84:37: executing "redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml" at <$.Subcharts.connector>: wrong type for value; expected map[string]interface {}; got interface {}
helm.go:84: [debug] template: redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml:84:37: executing "redpanda/templates/console/configmap-and-deployment.yaml" at <$.Subcharts.connector>: wrong type for value; expected map[string]interface {}; got interface {}

What did you expect to happen?

To run without error and create the connector pod

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?. Please include values file.

$ helm get values <redpanda-release-name> -n <redpanda-release-namespace> --all
# paste output here

Anything else we need to know?

No response

Which are the affected charts?

No response

Chart Version(s)

$ helm -n <redpanda-release-namespace> list 
# paste output here

Cloud provider

JIRA Link: K8S-238