jx create cluster eks fails with 'ERROR: error installing helm: Unable to download'

[pguimaraes]

Summary

Jenkins X version 2.0.979 cannot download helm.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

jx --version
2.0.979

jx create cluster eks --skip-installation=true --install-dependencies=true --eksctl-log-level=4 --cluster-name="XXX" --region="us-east-1" --zones="us-east-1a,us-east-1b" --node-type="m5.large" --nodes=2 --nodes-min=2 --nodes-max=4 --tags="CreatedBy=JenkinsX" --username="XXX" --verbose=true --batch-mode=true

Expected behavior

Successful cluster creation.

Actual behavior

DEBUG: Dependencies to be installed: eksctl, aws-iam-authenticator
Installing eksctl
Downloading https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/download/latest_release/eksctl_Linux_amd64.tar.gz to /home/XXX/.jx/bin/eksctl.tar.gz...
Downloaded /home/XXX/.jx/bin/eksctl.tar.gz
Installing aws-iam-authenticator
Downloading https://amazon-eks.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.12.7/2019-03-27/bin/linux/amd64/aws-iam-authenticator to /home/XXX/.jx/bin/aws-iam-authenticator...
Downloaded /home/XXX/.jx/bin/aws-iam-authenticator
Installing kubectl
Downloading https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.13.2/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl to /home/XXX/.jx/bin/kubectl...
Downloaded /home/XXX/.jx/bin/kubectl
Installing helm
Downloading https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v3.0.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz to /home/XXX/.jx/bin/helm.tgz...
ERROR: error installing helm: Unable to download file /home/XXX/.jx/bin/helm.tgz from https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v3.0.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz due to: download of https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v3.0.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz failed with return code 404

Please fix the error or install manually then try again

Jx version

The output of jx version is:

$ jx version
error: unable to load in-cluster configuration, KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST and KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT must be defined
$
$ jx --version
2.0.979

Jenkins type

• [ ] Serverless Jenkins X Pipelines (Tekton + Prow)
• [X ] Classic Jenkins

Kubernetes cluster

EKS cluster on AWS.

Operating system / Environment

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[pguimaraes]

I created an EKS cluster on AWS using Jenkins X version 2.0.918 on October 28 and this installation successfully downloaded https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v2.15.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz. However, I just tried to install a new cluster using Jenkins X version 2.0.918 (instead of version 2.0.979 listed above), and this time it attempted to download https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v3.0.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz, just like Jenkins X version 2.0.979 did above.

It looks like function GetLatestVersionFromGitHub in file pkg/util/downloads.go is attempting to get the latest version of Helm from GitHub, which recently changed to v3.0.0. However, this version of Helm is not available at the same location as the previous version v2.16.1 was, as shown below:

% curl -I https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v2.15.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
%
% curl -I https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v2.16.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
%
% curl -I https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v3.0.0-rc.4-linux-amd64.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
...
%
% curl -I https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v3.0.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
...
%

[pguimaraes]

As indicated at https://helm.sh/blog/get-helm-sh/#where-are-we-now, Helm client downloads are now published to a different location, so Jenkins X needs to update the URL for downloading the Helm binaries from now on.

[deanesmith]

Hi @pguimaraes A fix was merged last week. Should be all set.

[deanesmith]

/close

[jenkins-x-bot]

@deanesmith: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

/close

Instructions for interacting with me using PR comments are available here. If you have questions or suggestions related to my behavior, please file an issue against the kubernetes/test-infra repository.