Calico 3.19 has been released with support for Kubernetes 1.21.
Also, the CKA exam environment is running Kubernetes 1.21 which I’m currently studying for, therefore it’s time to upgrade.
The Upgrade Path
Our cluster was originally built using Ansible (kubeadm). We will use kubeadm upgrade to upgrade it.
We will be upgrading from:
- kubeadm 1.20.5
- kubelet 1.20.5
- kubectl 1.20.5
- calico 3.18
- docker-ce 19.03
to:
- kubeadm 1.21.1
- kubelet 1.21.1
- kubectl 1.21.1
- calico 3.19
- docker-ce 20.10
Backup the Cluster
Kubernetes nodes run on KVM, therefore we have taken KVM snapshosts of each virtual machine before starting the upgrade.
Upgrade Control Plane Nodes
Cluster node status before proceeding:
$ kubectl get no -o wide NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME srv31 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.20.5 10.11.1.31 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://19.3.14 srv32 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.20.5 10.11.1.32 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://19.3.14 srv33 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.20.5 10.11.1.33 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://19.3.14 srv34 Ready none 114d v1.20.5 10.11.1.34 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://19.3.14 srv35 Ready none 85d v1.20.5 10.11.1.35 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://19.3.14 srv36 Ready none 85d v1.20.5 10.11.1.36 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://19.3.14
Perform kubeadm upgrade
The upgrade procedure on control plane nodes should be executed one node at a time.
We will start with the control plane srv31. For the first control plane node srv31:
$ sudo yum install -y kubeadm-1.21.1-0 --disableexcludes=kubernetes $ kubeadm version
Verify the upgrade plan:
$ sudo kubeadm upgrade plan [upgrade/config] Making sure the configuration is correct: [upgrade/config] Reading configuration from the cluster... [upgrade/config] FYI: You can look at this config file with 'kubectl -n kube-system get cm kubeadm-config -o yaml' [preflight] Running pre-flight checks. [upgrade] Running cluster health checks [upgrade] Fetching available versions to upgrade to [upgrade/versions] Cluster version: v1.20.5 [upgrade/versions] kubeadm version: v1.21.1 [upgrade/versions] Target version: v1.21.1 [upgrade/versions] Latest version in the v1.20 series: v1.20.7 Components that must be upgraded manually after you have upgraded the control plane with 'kubeadm upgrade apply': COMPONENT CURRENT TARGET kubelet 6 x v1.20.5 v1.20.7 Upgrade to the latest version in the v1.20 series: COMPONENT CURRENT TARGET kube-apiserver v1.20.5 v1.20.7 kube-controller-manager v1.20.5 v1.20.7 kube-scheduler v1.20.5 v1.20.7 kube-proxy v1.20.5 v1.20.7 CoreDNS 1.7.0 v1.8.0 etcd 3.4.13-0 3.4.13-0 You can now apply the upgrade by executing the following command: kubeadm upgrade apply v1.20.7 _____________________________________________________________________ Components that must be upgraded manually after you have upgraded the control plane with 'kubeadm upgrade apply': COMPONENT CURRENT TARGET kubelet 6 x v1.20.5 v1.21.1 Upgrade to the latest stable version: COMPONENT CURRENT TARGET kube-apiserver v1.20.5 v1.21.1 kube-controller-manager v1.20.5 v1.21.1 kube-scheduler v1.20.5 v1.21.1 kube-proxy v1.20.5 v1.21.1 CoreDNS 1.7.0 v1.8.0 etcd 3.4.13-0 3.4.13-0 You can now apply the upgrade by executing the following command: kubeadm upgrade apply v1.21.1 _____________________________________________________________________ The table below shows the current state of component configs as understood by this version of kubeadm. Configs that have a "yes" mark in the "MANUAL UPGRADE REQUIRED" column require manual config upgrade or resetting to kubeadm defaults before a successful upgrade can be performed. The version to manually upgrade to is denoted in the "PREFERRED VERSION" column. API GROUP CURRENT VERSION PREFERRED VERSION MANUAL UPGRADE REQUIRED kubeproxy.config.k8s.io v1alpha1 v1alpha1 no kubelet.config.k8s.io v1beta1 v1beta1 no _____________________________________________________________________
Upgrade the cluster:
$ sudo kubeadm upgrade apply v1.21.1 [upgrade/config] Making sure the configuration is correct: [upgrade/config] Reading configuration from the cluster... [upgrade/config] FYI: You can look at this config file with 'kubectl -n kube-system get cm kubeadm-config -o yaml' [preflight] Running pre-flight checks. [upgrade] Running cluster health checks [upgrade/version] You have chosen to change the cluster version to "v1.21.1" [upgrade/versions] Cluster version: v1.20.5 [upgrade/versions] kubeadm version: v1.21.1 [upgrade/confirm] Are you sure you want to proceed with the upgrade? [y/N]: y [upgrade/prepull] Pulling images required for setting up a Kubernetes cluster [upgrade/prepull] This might take a minute or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection [upgrade/prepull] You can also perform this action in beforehand using 'kubeadm config images pull' [upgrade/apply] Upgrading your Static Pod-hosted control plane to version "v1.21.1"... Static pod: kube-apiserver-srv31 hash: a84b19f9229a51278d5980293549c7c0 Static pod: kube-controller-manager-srv31 hash: 2b33741afc25a93663d57a0c33b469e4 Static pod: kube-scheduler-srv31 hash: 9e23b1a40191518b4ea2c75208418b49 [upgrade/etcd] Upgrading to TLS for etcd Static pod: etcd-srv31 hash: 6712cd6dd60971c6e584b3bb0887050b [upgrade/staticpods] Preparing for "etcd" upgrade [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing etcd-server certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing etcd-peer certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing etcd-healthcheck-client certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Moved new manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml" and backed up old manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-backup-manifests-2021-06-15-15-07-39/etcd.yaml" [upgrade/staticpods] Waiting for the kubelet to restart the component [upgrade/staticpods] This might take a minute or longer depending on the component/version gap (timeout 5m0s) Static pod: etcd-srv31 hash: 6712cd6dd60971c6e584b3bb0887050b Static pod: etcd-srv31 hash: 831009cc8a4aa20cc490b2988d4374fc [apiclient] Found 3 Pods for label selector component=etcd [upgrade/staticpods] Component "etcd" upgraded successfully! [upgrade/etcd] Waiting for etcd to become available [upgrade/staticpods] Writing new Static Pod manifests to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-upgraded-manifests106217675" [upgrade/staticpods] Preparing for "kube-apiserver" upgrade [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing apiserver certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing apiserver-kubelet-client certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing front-proxy-client certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing apiserver-etcd-client certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Moved new manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml" and backed up old manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-backup-manifests-2021-06-15-15-07-39/kube-apiserver.yaml" [upgrade/staticpods] Waiting for the kubelet to restart the component [upgrade/staticpods] This might take a minute or longer depending on the component/version gap (timeout 5m0s) Static pod: kube-apiserver-srv31 hash: a84b19f9229a51278d5980293549c7c0 Static pod: kube-apiserver-srv31 hash: 67ab5d1bf2e1d140ad3e5c2487ab5874 [apiclient] Found 3 Pods for label selector component=kube-apiserver [upgrade/staticpods] Component "kube-apiserver" upgraded successfully! [upgrade/staticpods] Preparing for "kube-controller-manager" upgrade [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing controller-manager.conf certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Moved new manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-controller-manager.yaml" and backed up old manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-backup-manifests-2021-06-15-15-07-39/kube-controller-manager.yaml" [upgrade/staticpods] Waiting for the kubelet to restart the component [upgrade/staticpods] This might take a minute or longer depending on the component/version gap (timeout 5m0s) Static pod: kube-controller-manager-srv31 hash: 2b33741afc25a93663d57a0c33b469e4 Static pod: kube-controller-manager-srv31 hash: b6ca2cce4a7a4c33fe628ee584adf79a [apiclient] Found 3 Pods for label selector component=kube-controller-manager [upgrade/staticpods] Component "kube-controller-manager" upgraded successfully! [upgrade/staticpods] Preparing for "kube-scheduler" upgrade [upgrade/staticpods] Renewing scheduler.conf certificate [upgrade/staticpods] Moved new manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml" and backed up old manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-backup-manifests-2021-06-15-15-07-39/kube-scheduler.yaml" [upgrade/staticpods] Waiting for the kubelet to restart the component [upgrade/staticpods] This might take a minute or longer depending on the component/version gap (timeout 5m0s) Static pod: kube-scheduler-srv31 hash: 9e23b1a40191518b4ea2c75208418b49 Static pod: kube-scheduler-srv31 hash: 0067ca925dbe552e2166e5649844b315 [apiclient] Found 3 Pods for label selector component=kube-scheduler [upgrade/staticpods] Component "kube-scheduler" upgraded successfully! [upgrade/postupgrade] Applying label node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane='' to Nodes with label node-role.kubernetes.io/master='' (deprecated) [upgrade/postupgrade] Applying label node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers='' to control plane Nodes [upload-config] Storing the configuration used in ConfigMap "kubeadm-config" in the "kube-system" Namespace [kubelet] Creating a ConfigMap "kubelet-config-1.21" in namespace kube-system with the configuration for the kubelets in the cluster [kubelet-start] Writing kubelet configuration to file "/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml" [bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow Node Bootstrap tokens to get nodes [bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow Node Bootstrap tokens to post CSRs in order for nodes to get long term certificate credentials [bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow the csrapprover controller automatically approve CSRs from a Node Bootstrap Token [bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow certificate rotation for all node client certificates in the cluster [addons] Applied essential addon: CoreDNS [addons] Applied essential addon: kube-proxy [upgrade/successful] SUCCESS! Your cluster was upgraded to "v1.21.1". Enjoy! [upgrade/kubelet] Now that your control plane is upgraded, please proceed with upgrading your kubelets if you haven't already done so.
We are going to upgrade from Calico 3.18 to Calico 3.19 which has been tested against Kubernetes version 1.21.
$ kubectl apply -f https://docs.projectcalico.org/archive/v3.19/manifests/calico.yaml configmap/calico-config unchanged customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/bgpconfigurations.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/bgppeers.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/blockaffinities.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/clusterinformations.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/felixconfigurations.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/globalnetworkpolicies.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/globalnetworksets.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/hostendpoints.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/ipamblocks.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/ipamconfigs.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/ipamhandles.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/ippools.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/kubecontrollersconfigurations.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/networkpolicies.crd.projectcalico.org configured customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/networksets.crd.projectcalico.org configured clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/calico-kube-controllers unchanged clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/calico-kube-controllers unchanged clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/calico-node unchanged clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/calico-node unchanged daemonset.apps/calico-node configured serviceaccount/calico-node unchanged deployment.apps/calico-kube-controllers configured serviceaccount/calico-kube-controllers unchanged poddisruptionbudget.policy/calico-kube-controllers unchanged
For the other control plane nodes:
$ sudo yum install -y kubeadm-1.21.1-0 --disableexcludes=kubernetes $ kubeadm version $ sudo kubeadm upgrade node
According to Kubernetes documentation, calling kubeadm upgrade plan and upgrading the CNI provider plugin is no longer needed.
Drain the Nodes and Upgrade kubelet and kubectl
$ export CONTROL_PLANE="srv31"
$ kubectl drain ${CONTROL_PLANE} --ignore-daemonsets
$ sudo yum install -y kubelet-1.21.1-0 kubectl-1.21.1-0 --disableexcludes=kubernetes
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl restart kubelet
$ kubectl uncordon ${CONTROL_PLANE}
Repeat the process for control planes srv32 and srv33.
Upgrade Worker Nodes
We will start with the worker node srv34.
Upgrade kubeadm:
$ sudo yum install -y kubeadm-1.21.1-0 --disableexcludes=kubernetes $ sudo kubeadm upgrade node
Drain the worker node:
$ export WORKER_NODE="srv34"
$ kubectl drain ${WORKER_NODE} --ignore-daemonsets
Upgrade kubelet and kubectl:
$ sudo yum install -y kubelet-1.21.1-0 kubectl-1.21.1-0 --disableexcludes=kubernetes $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl restart kubelet
Uncordon the worker node:
$ kubectl uncordon ${WORKER_NODE}
Repeat the process for worker nodes srv35 and srv36.
Verify Cluster Status
Check cluster node status:
$ kubectl get no NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION srv31 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.21.1 srv32 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.21.1 srv33 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.21.1 srv34 Ready none 114d v1.21.1 srv35 Ready none 85d v1.21.1 srv36 Ready none 85d v1.21.1
Check Calico pods:
$ kubectl -n kube-system get po -l k8s-app=calico-node NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE calico-node-6d4gz 1/1 Running 0 14m calico-node-7fmzb 1/1 Running 0 18m calico-node-nqcwl 1/1 Running 0 15m calico-node-p5vkt 1/1 Running 0 18m calico-node-stfm6 1/1 Running 0 13m calico-node-t2lbf 1/1 Running 0 16m
Update Docker
Update docker version on control planes and worker nodes:
$ sudo yum install -y docker-ce-20.10.7 docker-ce-cli-20.10.7
Check docker version:
$ kubectl get no -o wide NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME srv31 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.21.1 10.11.1.31 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://20.10.7 srv32 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.21.1 10.11.1.32 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://20.10.7 srv33 Ready control-plane,master 114d v1.21.1 10.11.1.33 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://20.10.7 srv34 Ready none 114d v1.21.1 10.11.1.34 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://20.10.7 srv35 Ready none 86d v1.21.1 10.11.1.35 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://20.10.7 srv36 Ready none 86d v1.21.1 10.11.1.36 none CentOS Linux 7 (Core) 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 docker://20.10.7
References
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/kubeadm/kubeadm-upgrade/