How to uninstall / remove tiller from Kubernetes manually?

Question

I've by mistake installed an unsecured configuration of tiller.

I've tried helm reset but something must have corrupted because now when I try to install helm:

$HELM_HOME has been configured at /home/chris/.helm.
Warning: Tiller is already installed in the cluster.
(Use --client-only to suppress this message, or --upgrade to upgrade Tiller to the current version.)
Happy Helming!

However if I try helm ls I get:

Error: could not find tiller.

So because helm reset is insufficient, or there is some bugs, which resources do I need to delete in order to be able to reinstall helm correctly (helm init)?

Answer 1

Tiller can be uninstalled using the command

helm reset --force

or

helm reset --force --wait

It will force the clean of all resources inside the cluster. With that you are able to run helm init again.

Answer 2

kubectl delete deployment tiller-deploy -n k8s-tiller
kubectl delete service tiller-deploy -n k8s-tiller
kubectl delete -n=k8s-tiller rs tiller-deploy-6f65cf89

Initially I ran init with the --namespace set as k8s-tiller

This also might be useful:

kubectl get all --all-namespaces | grep tiller