I began to try Google Container Engine recently. I would you like to upgrade the Kubernetes Cluster to the latest version available, if possible without downtime. Is there any way to do this?
Unfortunately, the best answer we currently have is to create a new cluster and move your resources over, then delete the old one.
We are very actively working on making cluster upgrades reliable (both nodes and the master), but upgrades are unlikely to work for the majority of currently existing clusters.
We now have a checked-in upgrade tool for master and nodes: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/master/cluster/gce/upgrade.sh
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Auto-Scaling is OFF and Cluster-Upgrade is OFF but still dont know why cluster get restarted today morning. All Nodes got replace/change and All Pods got restarted
Reason is that it got restarted due to node got upgrade from 1.22 to 1.23 version
I have Regular Version in GKE Cluster
You should double-check with Google support (if you have a support plan), but I know from painful experience that if you're running a version of GKE that falls out of support, they may force-upgrade you to keep you within support, even if you have cluster upgrade turned off -- unless you use a maintenance exclusion.
The REGULAR channel release notes are here: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/release-notes-regular
The December 5th one is probably the one that affected you.
If you disable node auto-upgrade, you are responsible for ensuring that the cluster's nodes run a version compatible with the cluster's version, and that the version adheres to the Kubernetes version and version skew support policy.
Nodes running versions that have reached their end of life date are auto-upgraded even when auto-upgrade is disabled, to ensure supportability and version skew compatibility.
For more information you can read this link.
You can also check this link for temporary mitigation.
I want to roll back to specific version of kubernetes. My current version is 1.21.
Is there any system specifications for kubernetes?
If you are using a managed service, you probably won't be able to roll back, and I would strongly recommend AGAINST rolling back even if you can.
Managed services like GKE, AKS and EKS will only allow you to pick from the latest couple of versions (normally between 3-4 minor versions), but will not allow you to downgrade a minor version (e.g. you can't downgrade from 1.21 to 1.20 for example see here for GKE example)
Rolling back a version will re-introduce any bugs and security issues that were fixed by the upgrade. So essentially, you are making your cluster less secure by downgrading.
Clients such as kubectl will also flag up skew warnings such as in this question, and the rolled back clusters will start rejecting deployments if you've already updated them for new apiVersions
For example if the version you migrated from had an API version something/v1beta and the new version required you to use something/v1 then if you tried to deploy a deployment on the rolled back cluster that used something/v1 (to meet the new cluster version), the rolled back cluster would reject that.
Currently, we run kops based cluster of the version 15. We are planning to upgrade it to the version 16 first and then further. However, api versions for various kubernetes services in yaml's will also need to change. How would you address this issue before the cluster upgrade? Is there any way to enumerate all objects in the cluster with incompatible api versions or what would be the best approach for it? I suspect the objects created by kops, e.g. kube-system objects will be upgraded automatically.
When you upgrade the cluster, the API server will take care to upgrade all existing resources in the cluster. The problem arise when you want to deploy more resources and after the upgrade these are still using the old API versions. In this case your deployment (say kubectl apply) will fail.
I.e nothing already running in the cluster will break. But future deployments will if they still use old versions.
The resources managed by kOps already use new API versions.
I didn't notice my GKE cluster is in Rapid channel. Until today I want to add Node Pool.
It shows Node version "1.17.5-gke.6" is unsupported.
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/release-notes-rapid#may_27_2020
My questions are:
How to downgrade GKE master version
How to update a GKE cluster don't use rapid channel
I can't find anything about that in gcloud cli, official documents and stackoverflow.
When you create a cluster you have two options to choose from
A. Release channel [Rapid/Regular/Stable]
B. Static version
1.How to downgrade GKE master version.
From documentation, it mentions that if you are in release channel [Rapid/Regular/Stable], downgrading is not possible.
With static version it is possible to downgrade with the following limitations.
2.How to update a GKE cluster to not use rapid channel.
This is not possible and it will give the following error
Migrating off of releaseChannel RAPID is not supported.
More information can be also found here in regards to the migration between different release channels.
I have production stage hosted in Google Kubernetes Engine with Kubernetes version 1.12.9-gke.15.
My team is planning to upgrade it to Kubernetes version 1.13.11-gke.5.
A capture of list of Kubernetes version
I have read some articles to upgrade Kubernetes. However, they use kubeadm not GKE.
How to update api versions list in Kubernetes here's a example that use GKE.
If you guys have experience in upgrading kubernetes cluster in GKE or even kubeadm. Please share what should i do before upgrading the version ?
Should i upgrade the version to 1.13.7-gke.24 and then to 1.13.9-gke.3 and so on ?
You first should check if you are not using any depreciated features. For example check the Changelogs for version 1.12 and 1.13 to make sure you won't loose any functionality after the upgrade.
You will have to remember that if you have just one master node you will loose access to if for few minutes while control plane is being updated. After master node is set then worker nodes will follow.
There is a great post about Kubernetes best practices: upgrading your clusters with zero downtime, which talks about location for nodes and a beta option being Regional
When creating your cluster, be sure to select the “regional” option:
And that’s it! Kubernetes Engine automatically creates your nodes and masters in three zones, with the masters behind a load-balanced IP address, so the Kubernetes API will continue to work during an upgrade.
And they explain how does Rolling update works and how to do them.
Also you might consider familiarizing yourself with documentation for Cluster upgrades, as it discusses how automatic and manual upgrades work on GKE.
As you can see from your current version 1.12.9-gke.15 you cannot upgrade to 1.14.6-gke.1. You will need to upgrade to 1.13.11-gke.5 and once this is done you will be able to upgrade to latest GKE version.
GCP Kubernetes is upgraded manually and generally does not require you to do much. But if you are you looking for manual upgrade options maybe this will help.
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/upgrading-a-cluster
A point worth mentioning is too, make sure you have persistence volumes for services that require to do so viz. like DB, etc And for these, you will have to back them up manually.