<p>Using helm for deploying chart on my Kubernetes cluster, since one day, I can't deploy a new one or upgrading one existed.</p>

<p>Indeed, each time I am using helm I have an error message telling me that it is not possible to install or upgrade ressources.</p>

<p>If I run <code>helm install --name foo . -f values.yaml --namespace foo-namespace</code> I have this output:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Error: release foo failed: the server could not find the requested
  resource</p>
</blockquote>

<p>If I run <code>helm upgrade --install foo . -f values.yaml --namespace foo-namespace</code> or <code>helm upgrade foo . -f values.yaml --namespace foo-namespace</code> I have this error:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Error: UPGRADE FAILED: "foo" has no deployed releases</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I don't really understand why.</p>

<p>This is my helm version:</p>

<pre><code>Client: &amp;version.Version{SemVer:"v2.12.3", GitCommit:"eecf22f77df5f65c823aacd2dbd30ae6c65f186e", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Server: &amp;version.Version{SemVer:"v2.12.3", GitCommit:"eecf22f77df5f65c823aacd2dbd30ae6c65f186e", GitTreeState:"clean"}
</code></pre>

<p>On my kubernetes cluster I have tiller deployed with the same version, when I run <code>kubectl describe pods tiller-deploy-84b... -n kube-system</code>:</p>

<pre><code>Name:               tiller-deploy-84b8...
Namespace:          kube-system
Priority:           0
PriorityClassName:  &lt;none&gt;
Node:               k8s-worker-1/167.114.249.216
Start Time:         Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:50:21 +0100
Labels:             app=helm
                    name=tiller
                    pod-template-hash=84b...
Annotations:        &lt;none&gt;
Status:             Running
IP:                 &lt;IP_NUMBER&gt;
Controlled By:      ReplicaSet/tiller-deploy-84b8...
Containers:
  tiller:
    Container ID:   docker://0302f9957d5d83db22...
    Image:          gcr.io/kubernetes-helm/tiller:v2.12.3
    Image ID:       docker-pullable://gcr.io/kubernetes-helm/tiller@sha256:cab750b402d24d...
    Ports:          44134/TCP, 44135/TCP
    Host Ports:     0/TCP, 0/TCP
    State:          Running
      Started:      Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:50:28 +0100
    Ready:          True
    Restart Count:  0
    Liveness:       http-get http://:44135/liveness delay=1s timeout=1s period=10s #success=1 #failure=3
    Readiness:      http-get http://:44135/readiness delay=1s timeout=1s period=10s #success=1 #failure=3
    Environment:
      TILLER_NAMESPACE:    kube-system
      TILLER_HISTORY_MAX:  0
    Mounts:
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from helm-token-... (ro)
Conditions:
  Type              Status
  Initialized       True 
  Ready             True 
  ContainersReady   True 
  PodScheduled      True 
Volumes:
  helm-token-...:
    Type:        Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
    SecretName:  helm-token-...
    Optional:    false
QoS Class:       BestEffort
Node-Selectors:  &lt;none&gt;
Tolerations:     node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute for 300s
                 node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute for 300s
Events:
  Type    Reason     Age   From                   Message
  ----    ------     ----  ----                   -------
  Normal  Scheduled  26m   default-scheduler      Successfully assigned kube-system/tiller-deploy-84b86cbc59-kxjqv to worker-1
  Normal  Pulling    26m   kubelet, k8s-worker-1  pulling image "gcr.io/kubernetes-helm/tiller:v2.12.3"
  Normal  Pulled     26m   kubelet, k8s-worker-1  Successfully pulled image "gcr.io/kubernetes-helm/tiller:v2.12.3"
  Normal  Created    26m   kubelet, k8s-worker-1  Created container
  Normal  Started    26m   kubelet, k8s-worker-1  Started container
</code></pre>

<p>Is someone have faced the same issue ?</p>

<hr>

<p>Update:</p>

<p>This the folder structure of my actual chart named foo:
structure folder of the chart:</p>

<pre><code>&gt; templates/
  &gt; deployment.yaml 
  &gt; ingress.yaml
  &gt; service.yaml
&gt; .helmignore
&gt; Chart.yaml 
&gt; values.yaml
</code></pre>

<p>I have already tried to delete the chart in failure using the delete command <code>helm del --purge foo</code> but the same errors occurred.</p>

<p>Just to be more precise, the chart foo is in fact a custom chart using my own private registry. ImagePullSecret are normally setting up.</p>

<p>I have run these two commands <code>helm upgrade foo . -f values.yaml --namespace foo-namespace --force</code> | <code>helm upgrade --install foo . -f values.yaml --namespace foo-namespace --force</code> and I still get an error:</p>

<pre><code>UPGRADE FAILED
ROLLING BACK
Error: failed to create resource: the server could not find the requested resource
Error: UPGRADE FAILED: failed to create resource: the server could not find the requested resource
</code></pre>

<p>Notice that foo-namespace already exist. So the error don't come from the namespace name or the namespace itself. Indeed, if I run <code>helm list</code>, I can see that the <strong>foo</strong> chart is in a <code>FAILED</code> status.</p>

french_dev
<p>Tiller stores all releases as ConfigMaps in Tiller's namespace(<code>kube-system</code> in your case). Try to find broken release and delete it's ConfigMap using commands:</p>

<pre><code>$ kubectl get cm --all-namespaces -l OWNER=TILLER
NAMESPACE     NAME               DATA   AGE
kube-system   nginx-ingress.v1   1      22h

$ kubectl delete cm  nginx-ingress.v1 -n kube-system
</code></pre>

<p>Next, delete all release objects (deployment,services,ingress, etc) manually and reinstall release using helm again.</p>

<p>If it didn't help, you may try to download newer <a href="https://github.com/helm/helm/releases" rel="noreferrer">release</a> of Helm (v2.14.3 at the moment) and update/reinstall Tiller.</p>
