diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/49830-use-helm-272.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/49830-use-helm-272.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f6ecc12dbfa0f0f14f9b9524382aeb24874d4909
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/49830-use-helm-272.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Use Helm 2.7.2 for GitLab Managed Apps
+merge_request: 20956
+author:
+type: changed
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/kubernetes/helm.rb b/lib/gitlab/kubernetes/helm.rb
index 0f0588b8b2389658e192437c3bf952439b7ac901..530ccf88053ed125c10930dceb50b1afac86cfce 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/kubernetes/helm.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/kubernetes/helm.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module Gitlab
   module Kubernetes
     module Helm
-      HELM_VERSION = '2.7.0'.freeze
+      HELM_VERSION = '2.7.2'.freeze
       NAMESPACE = 'gitlab-managed-apps'.freeze
     end
   end
diff --git a/spec/support/shared_examples/helm_generated_script.rb b/spec/support/shared_examples/helm_generated_script.rb
index 05d53a13fd3e0c8184bd873a7c28885f2d83f1df..ef9bb7f553386bef7e077f9293efc196ee7853db 100644
--- a/spec/support/shared_examples/helm_generated_script.rb
+++ b/spec/support/shared_examples/helm_generated_script.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ shared_examples 'helm commands' do
          echo http://mirror.clarkson.edu/alpine/v$ALPINE_VERSION/main >> /etc/apk/repositories
          echo http://mirror1.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/alpine/v$ALPINE_VERSION/main >> /etc/apk/repositories
          apk add -U wget ca-certificates openssl >/dev/null
-         wget -q -O - https://kubernetes-helm.storage.googleapis.com/helm-v2.7.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar zxC /tmp >/dev/null
+         wget -q -O - https://kubernetes-helm.storage.googleapis.com/helm-v2.7.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar zxC /tmp >/dev/null
          mv /tmp/linux-amd64/helm /usr/bin/
       EOS
     end