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Install helm 2.13.0 on Minikube server (1.6.2) could not find tiller

1/14/2020

Hey I'm installing fresh minikube and try to init helm on it no in 3.x.x but 2.13.0 version.

$ minikube start
  minikube v1.6.2 on Darwin 10.14.6
✨  Automatically selected the 'hyperkit' driver (alternates: [virtualbox])
  Creating hyperkit VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
  Preparing Kubernetes v1.17.0 on Docker '19.03.5' ...
  Pulling images ...
  Launching Kubernetes ...
⌛  Waiting for cluster to come online ...
  Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube"

$ kubectl -n kube-system create serviceaccount tiller
serviceaccount/tiller created

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller --clusterrole cluster-admin --serviceaccount kube-system:tiller
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/tiller created

$ helm init --service-account tiller
$HELM_HOME has been configured at /Users/<user>/.helm.
Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource

$ 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 -

deployment.apps/tiller-deploy created
service/tiller-deploy created

$ helm init --service-account tiller
 59 ### ALIASES
$HELM_HOME has been configured at /Users/<user>/.helm.
Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource

$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.0", GitCommit:"79d07943b03aea2b76c12644b4b54733bc5958d6", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Error: could not find tiller

I try to do same on some random other ns, and with no result:

$ kubectl create ns deployment-stuff
namespace/deployment-stuff created

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin \
        --user=$(gcloud config get-value account)

clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/cluster-admin-binding created

$ kubectl create serviceaccount tiller --namespace deployment-stuff
kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin \
    --serviceaccount=deployment-stuff:tiller

serviceaccount/tiller created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/tiller-admin-binding created

$ helm init --service-account=tiller --tiller-namespace=deployment-stuff

Creating /Users/<user>/.helm
Creating /Users/<user>/.helm/repository
Creating /Users/<user>/.helm/repository/cache
Creating /Users/<user>/.helm/repository/local
Creating /Users/<user>/.helm/plugins
Creating /Users/<user>/.helm/starters
Creating /Users/<user>/.helm/cache/archive
Creating /Users/<user>/.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/<user>/.helm.
Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource

$ helm repo update
Hang tight while we grab the latest from your chart repositories...
...Skip local chart repository
...Successfully got an update from the "stable" chart repository
Update Complete. ⎈ Happy Helming!⎈

$ helm list
Error: could not find tiller

$ helm list --tiller-namespace=kube-system
Error: could not find tiller

$ helm list --tiller-namespace=deployment-stuff
Error: could not find tiller

Same error everywhere Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource any ideas how to approach it ?

I installed helm with those commands and works fine with my gcp clusters, helm list returns full list of helms.

wget -c https://get.helm.sh/helm-v2.13.0-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf helm-v2.13.0-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
mv darwin-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/helm

tbh I have no idea what's going on, sometimes it works fine on minikube sometimes I get these errors.

-- CptDolphin
kubernetes
kubernetes-helm

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1 Answer

1/14/2020

This can be fixed by deleting the tiller deployment and service and rerunning the helm init --override command after first helm init.

So after running commands You listed:

$ kubectl -n kube-system create serviceaccount tiller
serviceaccount/tiller created

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller --clusterrole cluster-admin --serviceaccount kube-system:tiller
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/tiller created

$ helm init --service-account tiller

And then finding out that tiller could not be found.

$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.0", GitCommit:"79d07943b03aea2b76c12644b4b54733bc5958d6", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Error: could not find tiller

Run the following commands:

1.

$ kubectl delete service tiller-deploy -n kube-system

2.

$ kubectl delete deployment tiller-deploy -n kube-system

3.

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

After that You can verify if it worked with:

$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.0", GitCommit:"79d07943b03aea2b76c12644b4b54733bc5958d6", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Error: could not find a ready tiller pod

This one needs little more time, give it few seconds.

$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.0", GitCommit:"79d07943b03aea2b76c12644b4b54733bc5958d6", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Server: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.0", GitCommit:"79d07943b03aea2b76c12644b4b54733bc5958d6", GitTreeState:"clean"}

Tell me if it worked.

-- Piotr Malec
Source: StackOverflow