kubeadm upgrade

kubeadm upgrade is a user-friendly command that wraps complex upgrading logic behind one command, with support for both planning an upgrade and actually performing it.

kubeadm upgrade guidance

The steps for performing an upgrade using kubeadm are outlined in this document. For older versions of kubeadm, please refer to older documentation sets of the Kubernetes website.

You can use kubeadm upgrade diff to see the changes that would be applied to static pod manifests.

In Kubernetes v1.15.0 and later, kubeadm upgrade apply and kubeadm upgrade node will also automatically renew the kubeadm managed certificates on this node, including those stored in kubeconfig files. To opt-out, it is possible to pass the flag --certificate-renewal=false. For more details about certificate renewal see the certificate management documentation.

kubeadm upgrade plan

Check which versions are available to upgrade to and validate whether your current cluster is upgradeable.

Synopsis

Check which versions are available to upgrade to and validate whether your current cluster is upgradeable. This command can only run on the control plane nodes where the kubeconfig file "admin.conf" exists. To skip the internet check, pass in the optional [version] parameter.

kubeadm upgrade plan [version] [flags]

Options

--allow-experimental-upgrades

Show unstable versions of Kubernetes as an upgrade alternative and allow upgrading to an alpha/beta/release candidate versions of Kubernetes.
--allow-missing-template-keys     Default: true

If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.
--allow-release-candidate-upgrades

Show release candidate versions of Kubernetes as an upgrade alternative and allow upgrading to a release candidate versions of Kubernetes.
--config string

Path to a kubeadm configuration file.
-h, --help

help for plan
--ignore-preflight-errors strings

A list of checks whose errors will be shown as warnings. Example: 'IsPrivilegedUser,Swap'. Value 'all' ignores errors from all checks.
--kubeconfig string     Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf"

The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.
-o, --output string     Default: "text"

Output format. One of: text|json|yaml|go-template|go-template-file|template|templatefile|jsonpath|jsonpath-as-json|jsonpath-file.
--print-config

Specifies whether the configuration file that will be used in the upgrade should be printed or not.
--show-managed-fields

If true, keep the managedFields when printing objects in JSON or YAML format.

Options inherited from parent commands

--rootfs string

The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.

kubeadm upgrade apply

Upgrade your Kubernetes cluster to the specified version

Synopsis

Upgrade your Kubernetes cluster to the specified version

kubeadm upgrade apply [version]

Options

--allow-experimental-upgrades

Show unstable versions of Kubernetes as an upgrade alternative and allow upgrading to an alpha/beta/release candidate versions of Kubernetes.
--allow-release-candidate-upgrades

Show release candidate versions of Kubernetes as an upgrade alternative and allow upgrading to a release candidate versions of Kubernetes.
--certificate-renewal     Default: true

Perform the renewal of certificates used by component changed during upgrades.
--config string

Path to a kubeadm configuration file.
--dry-run

Do not change any state, just output what actions would be performed.
--etcd-upgrade     Default: true

Perform the upgrade of etcd.
-f, --force

Force upgrading although some requirements might not be met. This also implies non-interactive mode.
-h, --help

help for apply
--ignore-preflight-errors strings

A list of checks whose errors will be shown as warnings. Example: 'IsPrivilegedUser,Swap'. Value 'all' ignores errors from all checks.
--kubeconfig string     Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf"

The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.
--patches string

Path to a directory that contains files named "target[suffix][+patchtype].extension". For example, "kube-apiserver0+merge.yaml" or just "etcd.json". "target" can be one of "kube-apiserver", "kube-controller-manager", "kube-scheduler", "etcd", "kubeletconfiguration", "corednsdeployment". "patchtype" can be one of "strategic", "merge" or "json" and they match the patch formats supported by kubectl. The default "patchtype" is "strategic". "extension" must be either "json" or "yaml". "suffix" is an optional string that can be used to determine which patches are applied first alpha-numerically.
--print-config

Specifies whether the configuration file that will be used in the upgrade should be printed or not.
-y, --yes

Perform the upgrade and do not prompt for confirmation (non-interactive mode).

Options inherited from parent commands

--rootfs string

The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.

kubeadm upgrade diff

Show what differences would be applied to existing static pod manifests. See also: kubeadm upgrade apply --dry-run

Synopsis

Show what differences would be applied to existing static pod manifests. See also: kubeadm upgrade apply --dry-run

kubeadm upgrade diff [version] [flags]

Options

--config string

Path to a kubeadm configuration file.
-c, --context-lines int     Default: 3

How many lines of context in the diff
-h, --help

help for diff
--kubeconfig string     Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf"

The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.

Options inherited from parent commands

--rootfs string

The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.

kubeadm upgrade node

Upgrade commands for a node in the cluster

Synopsis

Upgrade commands for a node in the cluster

The "node" command executes the following phases:

preflight       Run upgrade node pre-flight checks
control-plane   Upgrade the control plane instance deployed on this node, if any
kubelet-config  Upgrade the kubelet configuration for this node

kubeadm upgrade node [flags]

Options

--certificate-renewal     Default: true

Perform the renewal of certificates used by component changed during upgrades.
--config string

Path to a kubeadm configuration file.
--dry-run

Do not change any state, just output the actions that would be performed.
--etcd-upgrade     Default: true

Perform the upgrade of etcd.
-h, --help

help for node
--ignore-preflight-errors strings

A list of checks whose errors will be shown as warnings. Example: 'IsPrivilegedUser,Swap'. Value 'all' ignores errors from all checks.
--kubeconfig string     Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf"

The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.
--patches string

Path to a directory that contains files named "target[suffix][+patchtype].extension". For example, "kube-apiserver0+merge.yaml" or just "etcd.json". "target" can be one of "kube-apiserver", "kube-controller-manager", "kube-scheduler", "etcd", "kubeletconfiguration", "corednsdeployment". "patchtype" can be one of "strategic", "merge" or "json" and they match the patch formats supported by kubectl. The default "patchtype" is "strategic". "extension" must be either "json" or "yaml". "suffix" is an optional string that can be used to determine which patches are applied first alpha-numerically.
--skip-phases strings

List of phases to be skipped

Options inherited from parent commands

--rootfs string

The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.

What's next

  • kubeadm config if you initialized your cluster using kubeadm v1.7.x or lower, to configure your cluster for kubeadm upgrade
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