KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

💖 KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — the kubeadm upgrade glow-up guide 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let's talk about leveling up your whole cluster. this is kubeadm upgrade, from the kubernetes manual, and it's literally the command that takes your cluster from "aw it's a baby" to "new version, who dis". ✨

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🌈 NAME 🌈

kubeadm upgrade — Upgrade your cluster smoothly to a newer version with this command 🦋

no cap, that's the whole vibe: smooth upgrades, no drama.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kubeadm upgrade [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Upgrade your cluster smoothly to a newer version with this command. 🫶

like… yes bestie, that's the description. it's short but it's iconic. this is your main character command for moving a cluster to a newer version, and it does it smoothly, which is the part we care about, because "smoothly" is the difference between a chill Tuesday and a 3am incident call. 💀

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these aren't even its options, they're the family heirlooms it got from its parent command, and they still hit:

• --rootfs="" — the path to the 'real' host root filesystem. setting this makes kubeadm chroot into the path you gave it. so if you're living that container life and need to point at the actual host root instead of whatever fake little filesystem you're standing in, this is your girl. 🧚 default is "", which means: don't do that.
• --version=false — okay so this one is a triple threat. --version and --version=raw print version information and quit. --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version. yes, same flag, three jobs, we love a multitasker. 👑

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

go read these next, fr fr:

• kubeadm(1)
• kubeadm-upgrade-apply(1)
• kubeadm-upgrade-diff(1)
• kubeadm-upgrade-node(1)
• kubeadm-upgrade-plan(1)

the kubeadm upgrade subcommand family is giving squad goals — plan for looking before you leap, diff for seeing what's about to change, apply for actually doing it, node for the single-node girlies. iykyk. 💜

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💀 HISTORY 💀

January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since! 😭

so yeah, this page has been around since January 2015 — Eric Paris did the original compile based on the kubernetes source material, and the author's own hope was that these pages have been automatically generated ever since. honestly? a mood. automating your own job is the ultimate slay. 🔥

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🍓 cute lil sign-off 🍓

this page lives in the Manuals section, under the User category, and it's stamped KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) with that Jan 2015 Eric Paris energy up top. 💖

now go upgrade something. responsibly. mwah. 💅✨