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The Service is always created in the default namespace…

You mentioned that you have a dependsOn set, but are  you also passing the Namespace property in the Chart resource declaration as per: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/kubernetes/helm/v3/chart/#deploy-chart-into-namespace>