`Error: could not find tiller` when running `helm version`

Question

I have minikube and kubectl installed:

$ minikube version
minikube version: v1.4.0
commit: 7969c25a98a018b94ea87d949350f3271e9d64b6

$ 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"}

I have then followed the instructions from https://helm.sh/docs/using_helm/ :

1. I have downloaded https://get.helm.sh/helm-v2.13.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz

2. I have run

$ tar -xzvf Downloads/helm-v2.13.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz linux-amd64/
linux-amd64/LICENSE
linux-amd64/tiller
linux-amd64/helm
linux-amd64/README.md

But now, if I check my helm version, I get this:

$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.1", GitCommit:"618447cbf203d147601b4b9bd7f8c37a5d39fbb4", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Error: could not find tiller

I have tried running helm init , but get the following:

$ helm init
$HELM_HOME has been configured at /home/SERILOCAL/<my-username>/.helm.
Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource

How can I get helm to initialise correctly?

Answer 1

The current helm version does not work with kubernetes version 1.16.0

You can downgrade kubernetes to version 1.15.3

minikube start --kubernetes-version 1.15.3
helm init 

or use my solution to fix it at version 1.16.0

You have to create tiller Service Account and ClusterRoleBinding .

You can simply do that by using those commands:

kubectl --namespace kube-system create sa tiller
kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller --clusterrole cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:tiller

And simply create tiller

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 -

Answer 2

I met with the same problem, @shawndodo showed me this https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/6374#issuecomment-533427268

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 -

you can try this one. (Posted on this question )