Fix Kafka Operator Crash Loop - Dependency of Project Contour's HTTPProxy Custom Resource Definition (CRD)

[maxi1555]

Installing the latest version of the koperator is asking for the version:

helm install kafka-operator oci://ghcr.io/adobe/helm-charts/kafka-operator --namespace=kafka --create-namespace

Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: Could not locate a version matching provided version string

And if you specify the version "0.28.0-adobe-20250923"( from documentation ), then kafka cluster creation( from documentation ) is stuck on crash loop due to missing CRD of Project Contour's HTTPProxy:

helm install kafka-operator oci://ghcr.io/adobe/helm-charts/kafka-operator --version 0.28.0-adobe-20250923 --namespace=kafka --create-namespace

It was fixed installing the missing CRD:
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectcontour/contour/release-1.28/examples/contour/01-crds.yaml

[kashapovd]

faced with the same problem on 0.28.0-adobe-20251203