Error: UPGRADE FAILED: "knative" has no deployed releases

Summary

Due to a Helm bug, installing Knative results in an error:

Error: UPGRADE FAILED: "knative" has no deployed releases

Steps to reproduce

  • Have a failure installing the Knative application for the first time
  • Try to install Knative application again

Example Project

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What is the current bug behavior?

We see this error in the install-knative pod:

Error: UPGRADE FAILED: "knative" has no deployed releases

What is the expected correct behavior?

(What you should see instead)

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

...Successfully got an update from the "knative" chart repository
...Successfully got an update from the "stable" chart repository
Update Complete. ⎈ Happy Helming!⎈ 
+ helm upgrade knative knative/knative --install --reset-values --tls --tls-ca-cert /data/helm/knative/config/ca.pem --tls-cert /data/helm/knative/config/cert.pem --tls-key /data/helm/knative/config/key.pem --version 0.3.0 --set 'rbac.create=true,rbac.enabled=true' --namespace gitlab-managed-apps -f /data/helm/knative/config/values.yaml
error copying from remote stream to local connection: readfrom tcp4 127.0.0.1:43415->127.0.0.1:59102: write tcp4 127.0.0.1:43415->127.0.0.1:59102: write: broken pipe E 
Error: UPGRADE FAILED: "knative" has no deployed releases

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Results of GitLab environment info

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Results of GitLab application Check

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sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check SANITIZE=true)


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sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production SANITIZE=true)


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Possible fixes

Use --atomic when installing helm chart

Possible workaround

Use https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/56591#workaround-for-now to connect to Tiller then manually delete that chart

Edited by Thong Kuah