Set up a tunnel to tiller to use with the ansible helm module

main.yml

- set_fact:
    tun_pid_file: ...

- name: set up a tunnel to tiller
  shell: |
    tiller_pod="$(kubectl get pod -l app=helm,name=tiller --namespace kube-system -o name|cut -d/ -f2)"
    nohup kubectl port-forward "$tiller_pod" 44134:44134 --namespace kube-system </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
    echo "$!" >{{ tun_pid_file|quote }}
  creates: "{{ tun_pid_file }}"

- helm: ...

- name: tear down the tunnel to tiller
  shell: |
    kill "$(cat {{ tun_pid_file|quote }})" || true
    rm -f {{ tun_pid_file|quote }}
  removes: "{{ tun_pid_file }}"

Just stumbled upon with this after two days without understand why helm Ansible module is not working.

This saved my day. This should be on Ansible official repository!

thanks.