How to connect to Kubernetes from GitLab?

Hello,

I wanted to connect to my kubernetes (limited availability) cluster from my gitlab repo, firstly I followed this guide and successfully created a user ‘admin-user’ which I could use to sign into Kubernetes Dashboard as an admin

GitLab’s Kubernetes connection page asks for:

• Cluster name -> Which I got from the kubeconfig file beside ‘name’
• API URL -> From kubeconfig file beside ‘server’
• CA Certificate (PEM) -> From kubeconfig file beside ‘certificate-authority-data’ (then base64 decoded)
• Token -> The token created for my admin-user account
• Project namespace -> A new unique one as specified by GitLabs Docs

But I had limited success. GItLab reported ‘Something went wrong while installing Helm Tiller’, when I clicked install. There is a final experimental settings in the GitLab UI called ‘RBAC-enabled cluster’, I have tried with this setting both checked and unchecked, same results.

After looking at the dashboard, I see a ‘gitlab-managed-apps’ namespace had appeared which has done a few things like create a tiller-token secret, a config map and there’s some items listed under events

Is this something I’m doing wrong, a bug with GitLab or a bug with DigitalOcean? I’m relatively new to Kubernetes so if there’s more I can do to debug the issue please let me know

Thanks

EDIT: Oh, very strange, I deleted the tiller-secret and config-map left behind, tried clicking install about 3 more times, and now Helm Tiller has deployed successfully, no more errors. So solved for me, although I suspect more people will encounter this issue. (I had RBAC-enabled cluster checked for anyone looking for the same ‘fix’)