Rendered manifests contain a resource that already exists. Could not get information about the resource: resource name may not be empty

Question

I Installed Helm 3 on my windows laptop where i have kube config configured as well. But when i try to install my local helm chart, i;m getting the below error.

Error: rendered manifests contain a resource that already exists. Unable to continue with install: could not get information about the resource: resource name may not be empty

I tried helm ls --all --all-namespaces but i don't see anything. Please help me!

Answer 1

I think you have to check if you left off any resource without - name:

Answer 2

I had the same issue. In values.yaml I had

name:

and in deployment.yaml I tried to access this "name" via {{ .Values.name }}. I found out, that {{ .Values.name }} doesn't work for me at all. I had to use {{ Chart.Name }} in deployment.yaml as the built-in object. ref: https://helm.sh/docs/chart_template_guide/builtin_objects/

If you want to access the "name", you can put it into values.yaml for example like this:

something: name:

and them access it from deployment.yaml (for example) like {{ .Values.something.name }}