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Unable to deploy services using helm chart on Kubernetes cluster

9/25/2019

I am trying to deploy service using helm chart on kubernetes cluster. It is throwing error as

"Error: Non-absolute URLs should be in form of repo_name/path_to_chart, got: guestbook"

Here is the guestbook service that i am deploying https://github.com/phcollignon/helm/tree/master/lab5_helm_chart_version1/

provider.helm v2.14.3

provider.kubernetes v1.16

$ kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"16", GitVersion:"v1.16.0", GitCommit:"2bd9643cee5b3b3a5ecbd3af49d09018f0773c77", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-09-18T14:36:53Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"16", GitVersion:"v1.16.0", GitCommit:"2bd9643cee5b3b3a5ecbd3af49d09018f0773c77", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-09-18T14:27:17Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
$ helm install guestbook
Error: failed to download "guestbook" (hint: running `helm repo update` may help)
$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.14.3", GitCommit:"0e7f3b6637f7af8fcfddb3d2941fcc7cbebb0085", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Server: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.14.3", GitCommit:"0e7f3b6637f7af8fcfddb3d2941fcc7cbebb0085", GitTreeState:"clean"}
$ helm install guestbook --debug
[debug] Created tunnel using local port: '39069'

[debug] SERVER: "127.0.0.1:39069"

[debug] Original chart version: ""
Error: Non-absolute URLs should be in form of repo_name/path_to_chart, got: guestbook
-- Debiprasanna Mallia
kubernetes
kubernetes-helm

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1 Answer

9/25/2019

There are five different ways you can express the chart you want to install:

  1. By chart reference: helm install stable/mariadb
  2. By path to a packaged chart: helm install ./nginx-1.2.3.tgz
  3. By path to an unpacked chart directory: helm install ./nginx
  4. By absolute URL: helm install https://example.com/charts/nginx-1.2.3.tgz
  5. By chart reference and repo url: helm install --repo https://example.com/charts/ nginx

There is example using option number 3

Download github repository using this command:

git clone https://github.com/phcollignon/helm

Then go to the lab5_helm_chart_version1 file

cd helm/lab5_helm_chart_version1

And simply use helm install to create guestbook

helm install chart/guestbook/ --name guestbook
-- jt97
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