Failed to execute the action: exit status 1: Error: UPGRADE FAILED: “<app name>” has no deployed releases

If you get this command its most likely that you have an issue with your Helm deployment.yaml file. It is basically saying that no value has been set for the template value app.

Location: chart//templates/deployment.yaml

Fix:

Add in a new object called selector with has your app name in.
For example for the app ‘nodehelloworld’:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: "{{  .Chart.Name }}-deployment"
  labels:
    chart: '{{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version | replace "+" "_" }}'
    app: "{{  .Chart.Name }}"
spec:
  replicas: {{ .Values.replicaCount }}
  strategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
    rollingUpdate:
      maxUnavailable: 0
      maxSurge: 1
  revisionHistoryLimit: {{ .Values.revisionHistoryLimit }}
  # BEGIN PATCH
  selector:
    matchLabels:
        app: nodehelloworld
  # END PATCH
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: "{{  .Chart.Name }}"
        version: "current"
...