vSphere with Tanzu using NSX-T - Part10 - Upgrade K8s version of Tanzu Kubernetes cluster

In the previous posts we discussed the following:

Part1 - Prerequisites

Part2 - Configure NSX

Part3 - Edge Cluster

Part4 - Tier-0 Gateway and BGP peering

Part5 - Tier-1 Gateway and Segments

Part6 - Create tags, storage policy, and content library

Part7 - Enable workload management

Part8 - Create namespace and deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster

Part9 - Monitoring

In this article, I will explain how to upgrade the K8s version of a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster.

Verify the current K8s version of the Tanzu Kubernetes cluster.

Check available Tanzu Kubernetes versions.

Edit the cluster manifest file.

Here we are updating from 1.18.5 to 1.18.15.

Save the manifest file.

You can see the corresponding cluster starts updating.

The cluster will get updated to the newer version in a rolling fashion. The control plane node gets updated first, followed by the worker nodes one by one. A new node will be added to the cluster with new version, and an old node will be removed from the cluster.

 

Verify.

As you can see, the tkg-cluster-02 is upgraded from 1.18.5 to 1.18.15.

Hope it was useful. Cheers!

References

docs.vmware.com