Helmfile: UPGRADE FAILED: ... has no deployed releases

[estahn]

exec: helm upgrade --install --reset-values cheeky-chick stable/prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter --version 0.1.2 --namespace devops --values /p/prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter-us-east-1/values.yaml
Error: UPGRADE FAILED: "cheeky-chick" has no deployed releases
err: exit status 1

Added a new thing to the helmfile but get the above error.

  - name: cheeky-chick
    namespace: devops
    chart: stable/prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter
    version: 0.1.2
    values:
      - devops/prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter-us-east-1/values.yaml

[estahn]

This is probably more related to helm.

https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/issues/4282

[bgarcial]

I've performed

⟩ helm upgrade <my-release-name> ./<path-of-my-helm-chart> --install

And I can upgrade my helm chart without the need to perform previously

helm del --purge <my-release-name>

⟩ helm upgrade <my-release-name> ./<path-of-my-helm-chart> --install
Release "<my-release-name>" has been upgraded. Happy Helming!
LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Feb 21 11:50:03 2019
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/Service
NAME                        TYPE       CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP  PORT(S)  AGE
<my-release-name>  ClusterIP  x.x.x.x                   <none>       80/TCP   5d17h

NOTES:
The “help text” for your chart. This will be displayed to your users when they run helm install.
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[rafaelfelix]

I could only overcome this by running helm del --purge <my-release-name>, then helmfile apply.

$ helmfile --version
helmfile version v0.54.2

$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.1", GitCommit:"618447cbf203d147601b4b9bd7f8c37a5d39fbb4", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Server: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.1", GitCommit:"618447cbf203d147601b4b9bd7f8c37a5d39fbb4", GitTreeState:"clean"}

[mumoshu]

Thansk for the info!

If it works after helm del --purge, you'd like to set atomic: true for your relase in helmfile.yaml. See the help for --atomic flag that has been added to helm recently for more context.

[mumoshu]

And probably we'll make it default #512

[Morriz]

I don't know about others, but we deploy from a monorepo and setting atomic: true would cause the whole deployment to be reverted. Is there a possibility to have a flag that forces a single chart to be atomic? I am getting tired of this error...

[Morriz]

/reopen

[mumoshu]

@Morriz Hm? atomic: true does exactly that.

[mumoshu]

@Morriz Hey! So what you wanted was making only one sub-chart of your umbrella chart to be atomic? If so, that's impossible, and should be a feature request to helm, not helmfile.

[Morriz]

I do not remember if the atomic flag can be set on one release only. I think I tried, but am not sure. Will try.