Helm list tries to connect to localhost rather than Kubernetes

Question

I have a Kubernetes cluster running. All pods are running. This is a windows machine with minikube on it.

However helm ls --debug gives following error

helm ls --debug
[debug] Created tunnel using local port: '57209'

[debug] SERVER: "127.0.0.1:57209"

Error: Get http://localhost:8080/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?labelSelector=OWNER%!D(MISSING)TILLER: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8080: connect: connection refused

Cluster information

kubectl.exe cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at https://135.250.128.98:8443

To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.

kubectl service

kubectl.exe get svc
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP   3h

Dashboard is accessible at http://135.250.128.98:30000

kube configuration:

apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority: C:\Users\abc\.minikube\ca.crt
    server: https://135.250.128.98:8443
  name: minikube
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: minikube
    user: minikube
  name: minikube
current-context: minikube
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: minikube
  user:
    as-user-extra: {}
    client-certificate: C:\Users\abc\.minikube\client.crt
    client-key: C:\Users\abc\.minikube\client.key

Is there a solution? Most online resource says cluster is misconfigured. But not sure what is misconfigured and how to solve this error?

Answer 1

What worked for me when I was facing the same issue was changing automountServiceAccountToken to true.

Use the following command to edit the tiller-deploy

kubectl --namespace=kube-system edit deployment/tiller-deploy

And change automountServiceAccountToken to true