Quickly initialize Helm Tiller for GKE

helm-service-account.yaml

# Create a service account for Helm and grant the cluster admin role.
# It is assumed that helm should be installed with this service account
# (tiller).
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: tiller
  namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: tiller
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: tiller
  namespace: kube-system

helm_init.sh

repo=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/yingray/632241043486539bfc8cce3cf7f4bd1f/raw/9230696d9145ace8f6fa465c24e33776aec14422
kubectl apply -f $repo/helm-service-account.yaml
helm init --service-account tiller

Quickly initialize Helm Tiller for GKE:

curl -o- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/yingray/632241043486539bfc8cce3cf7f4bd1f/raw/62ff359193800f3fc4c6cad5890d4d062ff1f9ca/helm_init.sh  | bash