diff --git a/helm_resource/Tiltfile b/helm_resource/Tiltfile
index 39b252b7b..06706d158 100644
--- a/helm_resource/Tiltfile
+++ b/helm_resource/Tiltfile
@@ -155,4 +155,4 @@ def helm_repo(
   if password:
     args.extend(['--password', password])
 
-  local_resource(resource_name, args, allow_parallel=True, **kwargs)
+  local_resource(resource_name, args, allow_parallel=False, **kwargs)
diff --git a/helm_resource/test/Tiltfile b/helm_resource/test/Tiltfile
index 0868f5850..2955d43ae 100644
--- a/helm_resource/test/Tiltfile
+++ b/helm_resource/test/Tiltfile
@@ -98,3 +98,10 @@ helm_resource(
   labels=['memcached'],
   resource_deps=['helm-repo-bitnami'],
   auto_init=False)
+
+helm_repo(name='vm-charts',
+          url='https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts')
+helm_repo(name='grafana-charts',
+          url='https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts')
+helm_resource(name='grafana',
+              chart='grafana-charts/grafana')