diff --git a/src/main/helm/helm-release-manager.ts b/src/main/helm/helm-release-manager.ts
index d1b48cf34c..e4ae999f55 100644
--- a/src/main/helm/helm-release-manager.ts
+++ b/src/main/helm/helm-release-manager.ts
@@ -56,11 +56,12 @@ export class HelmReleaseManager {
   public async upgradeRelease(name: string, chart: string, values: any, namespace: string, version: string, cluster: Cluster){
     const helm = await helmCli.binaryPath();
     const fileName = tempy.file({name: "values.yaml"});
+    const proxyKubeconfig = cluster.getProxyKubeconfigPath();
 
     await fs.promises.writeFile(fileName, yaml.safeDump(values));
 
     try {
-      const { stdout } = await promiseExec(`"${helm}" upgrade ${name} ${chart} --version ${version} -f ${fileName} --namespace ${namespace} --kubeconfig ${cluster.getProxyKubeconfigPath()}`).catch((error) => { throw(error.stderr);});
+      const { stdout } = await promiseExec(`"${helm}" upgrade ${name} ${chart} --version ${version} -f ${fileName} --namespace ${namespace} --kubeconfig ${proxyKubeconfig}`).catch((error) => { throw(error.stderr);});
 
       return {
         log: stdout,
@@ -73,7 +74,9 @@ export class HelmReleaseManager {
 
   public async getRelease(name: string, namespace: string, cluster: Cluster) {
     const helm = await helmCli.binaryPath();
-    const { stdout } = await promiseExec(`"${helm}" status ${name} --output json --namespace ${namespace} --kubeconfig ${cluster.getProxyKubeconfigPath()}`).catch((error) => { throw(error.stderr);});
+    const proxyKubeconfig = cluster.getProxyKubeconfigPath();
+
+    const { stdout } = await promiseExec(`"${helm}" status ${name} --output json --namespace ${namespace} --kubeconfig ${proxyKubeconfig}`).catch((error) => { throw(error.stderr);});
     const release = JSON.parse(stdout);
 
     release.resources = await this.getResources(name, namespace, cluster);
diff --git a/src/main/routes/kubeconfig-route.ts b/src/main/routes/kubeconfig-route.ts
index 7fe5bcb9bc..bad5ecd57a 100644
--- a/src/main/routes/kubeconfig-route.ts
+++ b/src/main/routes/kubeconfig-route.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class KubeconfigRoute extends LensApi {
 
   public async routeServiceAccountRoute(request: LensApiRequest) {
     const { params, response, cluster} = request;
-    const client = cluster.getProxyKubeconfig().makeApiClient(CoreV1Api);
+    const client = (await cluster.getProxyKubeconfig()).makeApiClient(CoreV1Api);
     const secretList = await client.listNamespacedSecret(params.namespace);
     const secret = secretList.body.items.find(secret => {
       const { annotations } = secret.metadata;
diff --git a/src/main/routes/port-forward-route.ts b/src/main/routes/port-forward-route.ts
index 33c34758a4..0b5954948d 100644
--- a/src/main/routes/port-forward-route.ts
+++ b/src/main/routes/port-forward-route.ts
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class PortForwardRoute extends LensApi {
         namespace,
         name: resourceName,
         port,
-        kubeConfig: cluster.getProxyKubeconfigPath()
+        kubeConfig: await cluster.getProxyKubeconfigPath()
       });
       const started = await portForward.start();