From Homebrew:
brew update && brew upgrade kops
From Github:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/kops
wget -O kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-darwin-amd64
chmod +x ./kops
sudo mv ./kops /usr/local/bin/
You can also rerun these steps if previously built from source.
From Github:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/kops
wget -O kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-linux-amd64
chmod +x ./kops
sudo mv ./kops /usr/local/bin/
You can also rerun these steps if previously built from source.
Upgrading Kubernetes is easy with kOps. The cluster spec contains a kubernetesVersion
, so you can simply edit it with kops edit
, and apply the updated configuration to your cluster.
The kops upgrade
command also automates checking for and applying updates.
It is recommended to run the latest version of kOps to ensure compatibility with the target kubernetesVersion. When applying a Kubernetes minor version upgrade (e.g. v1.5.3
to v1.6.0
), you should confirm that the target kubernetesVersion is compatible with the current kOps release.
kops edit cluster $NAME
- set the kubernetesVersion to the target version (e.g.
v1.3.5
) Note the verb used below isupdate
, notupgrade
. kops update cluster $NAME
to preview, thenkops update cluster $NAME --yes
kops rolling-update cluster $NAME
to preview, thenkops rolling-update cluster $NAME --yes
kops upgrade cluster $NAME
to preview, thenkops upgrade cluster $NAME --yes
In future the upgrade step will likely perform the update immediately (and possibly even without a node restart), but currently you must:
kops update cluster $NAME
to preview, thenkops update cluster $NAME --yes
kops rolling-update cluster $NAME
to preview, thenkops rolling-update cluster $NAME --yes
Upgrade uses the latest Kubernetes version considered stable by kOps, defined in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/channels/stable
.
kops edit cluster $NAME
- set the kubernetesVersion to the target version (e.g.
v1.3.5
) - NOTE: The next 3 steps must all be run in the same directory. Here,
--out=.
specifies that the Terraform files will be written to the current directory. It should point to wherever your Terraform files fromkops create cluster
exist. The default isout/terraform
. kops update cluster $NAME --target=terraform --out=.
terraform plan
terraform apply
kops rolling-update cluster $NAME
to preview, thenkops rolling-update cluster $NAME --yes
- In general, we recommend that you upgrade your cluster one minor release at a time (1.17 --> 1.18 --> 1.19). Although jumping minor versions may work if you have not enabled alpha features, you run a greater risk of running into problems due to version deprecation.