I'm trying to install older version of helm and tiller on minikube locally and keep on getting the Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource erorr message - no clue on how else to approach the problem;

Steps I did:

• Accoording to this site: https://medium.com/@nehaguptag/installing-older-version-of-helm-downgrading-helm-8f3240592202

$ brew unlink kubernetes-helm
$ brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/78d64252f30a12b6f4b3ce29686ab5e262eea812/Formula/kubernetes-helm.rb
$ brew switch kubernetes-helm 2.9.1

• Other than that just: minikube start
• Set kubectl to use minikube: kubectl config set-context minikube
• Change docker to run/download images on minikube: eval $(minikube docker-env)

The error message i get is:

MacBook-Pro% helm init
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm/repository
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm/repository/cache
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm/repository/local
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm/plugins
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm/starters
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm/cache/archive
Creating /Users/rwalas/.helm/repository/repositories.yaml
Adding stable repo with URL: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
Adding local repo with URL: http://127.0.0.1:8879/charts
$HELM_HOME has been configured at /Users/rwalas/.helm.
Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource

** Update

This bug report helps a little but issues still exists: https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/6374

current workaround seems to be something like this:

helm init --output yaml > tiller.yaml and update the tiller.yaml:

change to apps/v1 add the selector field

---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  labels:
    app: helm
    name: tiller
  name: tiller-deploy
  namespace: kube-system
spec:
  replicas: 1
  strategy: {}
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: helm
      name: tiller

and:

• kubectl apply -f tiller.yaml
• helm init --service-account tiller --override spec.selector.matchLabels.'name'='tiller',spec.selector.matchLabels.'app'='helm' --output yaml | sed 's@apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1@apiVersion: apps/v1@' | kubectl apply -f -

Resolved:

And these steps helped me in the end, which I suggest to everyone who want to use older versions of helm

# 1. Check which binary you would like: https://github.com/helm/helm/releases and copy address
wget -c https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf helm-v3.0.2-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
rm -rf ~/.helm
mv <directory_of_download>/Darwin-AMD64<or whatever other name it was named>/helm /usr/local/bin/helm