diff --git a/garden-service/src/plugins/kubernetes/util.ts b/garden-service/src/plugins/kubernetes/util.ts
index 30f08a6f162..759f5525d66 100644
--- a/garden-service/src/plugins/kubernetes/util.ts
+++ b/garden-service/src/plugins/kubernetes/util.ts
@@ -60,11 +60,34 @@ export async function getAllPodNames(api: KubeApi, namespace: string, resources:
   return (await getAllPods(api, namespace, resources)).map(p => p.metadata.name)
 }
 
+/**
+ * Given a resources, try to retrieve a valid selector or return {} otherwise.
+ * NOTE: selector: {} matches all the pods for the resource, when using the k8s APIs.
+ */
+export function getSelectorFromResource(resource: KubernetesWorkload) {
+  let selector = {}
+  // We check if the resource has a selector
+  if (resource.spec.selector) {
+    selector = resource.spec.selector.matchLabels
+  } else {
+    // We check if the resource is from an Helm Chart
+    // (as in returned from kubernetes.helm.common.getChartResources(...))
+    if (resource.metadata
+      && resource.metadata.labels
+      && resource.metadata.labels.chart) {
+      selector = {
+        app: resource.metadata.labels.app,
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return selector
+}
+
 /**
  * Retrieve a list of pods based on the provided label selector.
  */
 export async function getWorkloadPods(api: KubeApi, namespace: string, resource: KubernetesWorkload) {
-  const selector = resource.spec.selector.matchLabels
+  const selector = getSelectorFromResource(resource)
   const pods = await getPods(api, resource.metadata.namespace || namespace, selector)
 
   if (resource.kind === "Deployment") {