It seems that this issue boils down to my helm version being

v3.11.2

, which is passing the kubeversion to the helm chart as whatever is bundled with helm.

@witty-honey-18052 are you using

helm template

? Helm uses the version of Kubernetes that the cluster lists. For

helm template

you can use the

--kube-version

flag to set the version you want.

Hi @famous-caravan-42165, so part of my issue is that i'm trying to use Skaffold to drive the helm deployment. One workaround was to try using the below flags (--validate, to force helm to use the server version), which seems to work for

skaffold render

but breaks the install/upgrade (

skaffold dev

or

skaffold run

, which fails when validate is not a recognized option for those commands,

Error: unknown flag: --validate

)

helm:
    flags:
        global:
          - --validate

When Helm communicates to the k8s API it uses the specific version of k8s that’s running. For

helm template

there is no cluster to connect to. So, it uses a default value of the latest.

--kube-version

works there.

That's what I had expected as well as far as helm using the k8s version, but it's been a wild ride trying to find out why it isn't happening in this case. (Or at least why the version error is what is being printed)

skaffold uses helm template. see https://skaffold.dev/docs/renderers/helm/#how-helm-render-support-works-in-skaffold

it looks like it isn't supported (yet) to provide flags specifically to helm template from the skaffold yaml