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So it happened that I had to deal with kubernetes, helm and Azure. To discover that both client and server version of kubernetes helm MUST be the same.
$ helm install ./something -n somename-000 -f ./some-config.yaml To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://microsoft.com/devicelogin and enter the code XXXXXXX to authenticate. Error: incompatible versions client[v2.14.1] server[v2.13.1]
The problem lies in the fact that I installed kubernetes-helm with brew on osx. Which is an amazing tool but not always keep in a easy accessible way older versions.
So the question now would be: how do I install the older version 2.13.1 so that I can work?
First, brew allows you to install from URL. Specially git URLs pointing to the raw ruby script.
With that we can point to a specific point in time on GH (hashcode) for the right formulae. First we have to find it out.
# clone the homebrew GH repo $ git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core.git # go through the logs (manually in this case) for the right commit id $ git log master -- Formula/kubernetes-helm.rb ... commit c3a105c41a8f8be942bf97554466af236c2fac72 Author: BrewTestBot homebrew-test-bot@lists.sfconservancy.org Date: Fri Mar 22 02:21:09 2019 +0000kubernetes-helm: update 2.13.1 bottle.
commit fd2c01c0cd6ba9a32c5a84b9b914debd077c7498 Author: Igor Kapkov igasgeek@me.com Date: Fri Mar 22 11:03:08 2019 +1100kubernetes-helm 2.13.1 Closes #38158. Signed-off-by: FX Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com>
# clone the homebrew GH repo ...
Now we have the commit we want: c3a105c41a8f8be942bf97554466af236c2fac72.
You can verify it by accessing https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/c3a105c41a8f8be942bf97554466af236c2fac72/Formula/kubernetes-helm.rb.
which now lead us to a set of commands
# will install the 2.13.1 version as currently brew moved to 2.14.1 $ brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/c3a105c41a8f8be942bf97554466af236c2fac72/Formula/kubernetes-helm.rb # will switch to 2.13.1 and pin it so that future update of brew won't update the formulae $ brew switch kubernetes-helm 2.13.1 $ brew pin kuberntes-helm