k8s-upgrades.md

1.16

• Deprecation of kubernetes.io/role label.

  • Action: Replace with role.node.kubernetes.io/role.
  • Consequence: kubectl get node won't show the ROLE column. See: kubernetes/kubernetes#84912 (comment)

• Deprecation of API versions.

  • Action: Use https://github.com/rikatz/kubepug to find problematic API versions in your cluster.
  • Action: Change all manifests to the new API version.
  • Action: Make sure helm charts release state also have the manifests with the new API version.
  • Action: Use https://github.com/FairwindsOps/pluto in your CI pipelines to monitor API version deprecation.
  • Consequence: kubernetes/kubernetes#58131 (comment)

• Upgrade add-ons

  • cni
  • cluster-autoscaler
  • metrics-server
  • kube-state-metrics