helm error when updating: UPGRADE FAILED: The order in patch list

Question

I have a problem with helm deployment. It has happend after I have added a new environment variable to the deployment.

When I execute: helm upgrade [RELEASE] [CHART]

I get the following error:

Error: The order in patch list:
[
    map[name:APP_ENV value:prod]
    map[name:MAILER_URL value:...] 
    map[name:APP_VERSION value:v0-0-3] 
    map[name:APP_COMMIT_SHA value:...]
]
 doesn't match $setElementOrder list:
[
    map[name:APP_ENV] 
    map[name:COMPOSER_HOME] 
    map[name:PHP_XDEBUG_ENABLED] 
    map[name:DATABASE_DRIVER] 
    map[name:DATABASE_HOST] 
    map[name:DATABASE_NAME] 
    map[name:DATABASE_USER] 
    map[name:SECRET] 
    map[name:INDEX_HOSTS]
    map[name:MAILER_FROM_ADDRESS] 
    map[name:MAILER_FROM_NAME] 
    map[name:UPLOAD_DIR] 
    map[name:ARCHIVE_DIR] 
    map[name:CATALOG_STORAGE_DIR] 
    map[name:ASSET_STORAGE_DIR] 
    map[name:TMP_STORAGE_DIR] 
    map[name:UPLOAD_TMP_DIR] 
    map[name:APP_VERSION] 
    map[name:APP_COMMIT_SHA] 
    map[name:APP_CRON] 
    map[name:DATABASE_PASSWORD] 
    map[name:MAILER_URL]
    ...
]

However, if I execute the same command with the flag --dry-run, I do not get any error ( helm upgrade [RELEASE] [CHART] --dry-run)

I don't know the reason of this problem or how to solve it

Could you please run `helm lint` to check if there are any issues with the helm chart? I am analyzing your problem in a meantime. — Wytrzymały Wiktor, Mar 18 '20 at 07:27
Also your `MAILER_URL value` should be put after the `APP_COMMIT_SHA value`. Could you reorder them and tell me if that helped? — Wytrzymały Wiktor, Mar 18 '20 at 07:41
The result of helm lint: `Chart.yaml: icon is recommended 1 chart(s) linted, no failures` — pcampana, Mar 18 '20 at 09:23

score 43 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '20 at 10:33

43

I've found that the reason of this problem was that I had some envVars duplicated. In my deployment I had:

...
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      container:
        env:
        - name:  ENV_VAR_NAME
          value: "test"
        - name:  ENV_VAR_NAME
          value: "test"
...

After removing the duplicated variable:

...
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      container:
        env:
        - name:  ENV_VAR_NAME
          value: "test"
...

The helm upgrade [RELEASE] [CHART] worked fine

answered Mar 18 '20 at 10:33

pcampana

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some more context here: https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/6002 – teebszet Jan 13 '21 at 05:33
You saved me many minutes, thanks ;) – benCat Nov 03 '21 at 12:32

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '21 at 15:50

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I had the same error but no duplicate variables. Reordering the env vars alphabetically worked for me :-(

answered Dec 01 '21 at 15:50

LiorH

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 22 '21 at 08:08

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I had the same error, but no duplicate env variable. I forced the update by doing:

helm upgrade [RELEASE] [CHART] --force

answered Apr 22 '21 at 08:08

h q

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In my case it was because the same environment variable was being set via Helm chart template value interpolation. – Coder Guy Oct 05 '21 at 16:15

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 07 '23 at 05:54

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I got the same error fixed via remove duplicated variable.

answered Jun 07 '23 at 05:54

Sanchelz

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helm error when updating: UPGRADE FAILED: The order in patch list

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