helm list : cannot list configmaps in the namespace "kube-system"

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sfgroups picture sfgroups · Oct 10, 2017 · Viewed 46.5k times · Source

I have installed helm 2.6.2 on the kubernetes 8 cluster. helm init worked fine. but when I run helm list it giving this error.

 helm list
Error: configmaps is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:kube-system:default" cannot list configmaps in the namespace "kube-system"

How to fix this RABC error message?

Answer

sfgroups picture sfgroups · Oct 11, 2017

Once these commands:

kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace kube-system tiller
kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller-cluster-rule --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:tiller
kubectl patch deploy --namespace kube-system tiller-deploy -p '{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"serviceAccount":"tiller"}}}}'      
helm init --service-account tiller --upgrade

were run, the issue has been solved.

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