Mastering Kubernetes - Second Edition

Installing Tiller in-cluster

The easiest way to install Tiller is from a machine where the Helm client is installed. Run the following command:

helm init

This will initialize both the client and the Tiller server on the remote Kubernetes cluster. When the installation is done, you will have a running Tiller pod in the kube-system namespace of your cluster:

> kubectl get po --namespace=kube-system -l name=tiller
NAME                            READY  STATUS   RESTARTS   AGE
tiller-deploy-3210613906-2j5sh  1/1    Running  0          1m  

You can also run helm version to check out both the client's and the server's version:

> helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.2.3", GitCommit:"1402a4d6ec9fb349e17b912e32fe259ca21181e3", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Server: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.2.3", ...