Before You Start

v1.23 or v1.25

Upgraded to v1.27

Docker is no longer recommended. Use containerd instead. For details, see Container Engine.

This item has been included in the pre-upgrade check.

v1.21 or v1.19

Upgraded to v1.23

For the Nginx Ingress Controller of an earlier version (community version v0.49 or earlier, or CCE nginx-ingress version v1.x.x), the created ingresses can be managed by the Nginx Ingress Controller even if kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx is not set in the ingress annotations. However, for the Nginx Ingress Controller of a later version (community version v1.0.0 or later, or CCE nginx-ingress version v2.x.x), the ingresses created without specifying the Nginx type will not be managed by the Nginx Ingress Controller, and ingress rules will become invalid, which interrupts services.

This item has been included in the pre-upgrade check. You can also perform the self-check by referring to nginx-ingress.

v1.19 to v1.21

The bug of exec probe timeouts is fixed in Kubernetes 1.21. Before this bug is fixed, the exec probe does not consider the timeoutSeconds field. Instead, the probe will run indefinitely, even beyond its configured deadline. It will stop until the result is returned. If this field is not specified, the default value 1 is used. This field takes effect after the upgrade. If the probe runs over 1 second, the application health check may fail and the application may restart frequently.

Before the upgrade, check whether the timeout is properly set for the exec probe.

kube-apiserver of CCE 1.19 or later requires that the Subject Alternative Names (SANs) field be configured for the certificate of your webhook server. Otherwise, kube-apiserver fails to call the webhook server after the upgrade, and containers cannot be started properly.

Root cause: X.509 CommonName is discarded in Go 1.15. kube-apiserver of CCE 1.19 is compiled using Go 1.15. If your webhook certificate does not have SANs, kube-apiserver does not process the CommonName field of the X.509 certificate as the host name by default. As a result, the authentication fails.

Before the upgrade, check whether the SAN field is configured in the certificate of your webhook server.

• If you do not have your own webhook server, you can skip this check.
• If the field is not set, use the SAN field to specify the IP address and domain name supported by the certificate.

Guaranteed

Besteffort

Burstable

Yes

Guaranteed

Burstable

Burstable

No

Guaranteed

Guaranteed

Guaranteed

No

Besteffort

Besteffort

Besteffort

No

Besteffort

Burstable

Burstable

No

Besteffort

Guaranteed

Burstable

Yes

Burstable

Besteffort

Burstable

Yes

Burstable

Burstable

Burstable

No

Burstable

Guaranteed

Burstable

Yes

CSIStorageCapacity

storage.k8s.io/v1beta1

storage.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.24.)

None

FlowSchema and PriorityLevelConfiguration

flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta1

flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3

(This API is available since v1.26.)

None

HorizontalPodAutoscaler

autoscaling/v2beta2

autoscaling/v2

(This API is available since v1.23.)

None

CronJob

batch/v1beta1

batch/v1

(This API is available since v1.21.)

None

EndpointSlice

discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1

discovery.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.21.)

Pay attention to the following changes:

• In each endpoint, the topology["kubernetes.io/hostname"] field has been deprecated. Replace it with the nodeName field.
• In each endpoint, the topology["kubernetes.io/zone"] field has been deprecated. Replace it with the zone field.
• The topology field is replaced with deprecatedTopology and cannot be written in v1.

Event

events.k8s.io/v1beta1

events.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.19.)

Pay attention to the following changes:

• The type field can only be set to Normal or Warning.
• The involvedObject field is renamed regarding.
• The action, reason, reportingController, and reportingInstance fields are mandatory for creating a new events.k8s.io/v1 event.
• Use eventTime instead of the deprecated firstTimestamp field (this field has been renamed deprecatedFirstTimestamp and is not allowed to appear in the new events.k8s.io/v1 event object).
• Use series.lastObservedTime instead of the deprecated lastTimestamp field (this field has been renamed deprecatedLastTimestamp and is not allowed to appear in the new events.k8s.io/v1 event object).
• Use series.count instead of the deprecated count field (this field has been renamed deprecatedCount and is not allowed to appear in the new events.k8s.io/v1 event object).
• Use reportingController instead of the deprecated source.component field (this field has been renamed deprecatedSource.component and is not allowed to appear in the new events.k8s.io/v1 event object).
• Use reportingInstance instead of the deprecated source.host field (this field has been renamed deprecatedSource.host and is not allowed to appear in the new events.k8s.io/v1 event object).

HorizontalPodAutoscaler

autoscaling/v2beta1

autoscaling/v2

(This API is available since v1.23.)

None

PodDisruptionBudget

policy/v1beta1

policy/v1

(This API is available since v1.21.)

If spec.selector is set to null ({}) in PodDisruptionBudget of policy/v1, all pods in the namespace are selected. (In policy/v1beta1, an empty spec.selector means that no pod will be selected.) If spec.selector is not specified, pod will be selected in neither API version.

PodSecurityPolicy

policy/v1beta1

None

Since v1.25, the PodSecurityPolicy resource no longer provides APIs of the policy/v1beta1 version, and the PodSecurityPolicy access controller is deleted.

Use Pod Security Admission instead.

RuntimeClass

node.k8s.io/v1beta1

node.k8s.io/v1 (This API is available since v1.20.)

None

MutatingWebhookConfiguration

ValidatingWebhookConfiguration

admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1

admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.16.)

• The default value of webhooks[*].failurePolicy is changed from Ignore to Fail in v1.
• The default value of webhooks[*].matchPolicy is changed from Exact to Equivalent in v1.
• The default value of webhooks[*].timeoutSeconds is changed from 30s to 10s in v1.
• The default value of webhooks[*].sideEffects is deleted, and this field must be specified. In v1, the value can only be None or NoneOnDryRun.
• The default value of webhooks[*].admissionReviewVersions is deleted. In v1, this field must be specified. (AdmissionReview v1 and v1beta1 are supported.)
• webhooks[*].name must be unique in the list of objects created through admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1.

CustomResourceDefinition

apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1

apiextensions/v1

(This API is available since v1.16.)

• The default value of spec.scope is no longer Namespaced. This field must be explicitly specified.
• spec.version is deleted from v1. Use spec.versions instead.
• spec.validation is deleted from v1. Use spec.versions[*].schema instead.
• spec.subresources is deleted from v1. Use spec.versions[*].subresources instead.
• spec.additionalPrinterColumns is deleted from v1. Use spec.versions[*].additionalPrinterColumns instead.
• spec.conversion.webhookClientConfig is moved to spec.conversion.webhook.clientConfig in v1.
• spec.conversion.conversionReviewVersions is moved to spec.conversion.webhook.conversionReviewVersions in v1.

• spec.versions[*].schema.openAPIV3Schema becomes a mandatory field when the CustomResourceDefinition object of the v1 version is created, and its value must be a structural schema.
• spec.preserveUnknownFields: true cannot be specified when the CustomResourceDefinition object of the v1 version is created. This configuration must be specified using x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields: true in the schema definition.
• In v1, the JSONPath field in the additionalPrinterColumns entry is renamed jsonPath (patch #66531).

APIService

apiregistration/v1beta1

apiregistration.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.10.)

None

TokenReview

authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1

authentication.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.6.)

None

LocalSubjectAccessReview

SelfSubjectAccessReview

SubjectAccessReview

SelfSubjectRulesReview

authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1

authorization.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.16.)

spec.group was renamed spec.groups in v1 (patch #32709).

CertificateSigningRequest

certificates.k8s.io/v1beta1

certificates.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.19.)

Lease

coordination.k8s.io/v1beta1

coordination.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.14.)

None

Ingress

networking.k8s.io/v1beta1

extensions/v1beta1

networking.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.19.)

• The spec.backend field is renamed spec.defaultBackend.
• The serviceName field of the backend is renamed service.name.
• The backend servicePort field represented by a number is renamed service.port.number.
• The backend servicePort field represented by a string is renamed service.port.name.
• The pathType field is mandatory for all paths to be specified. The options are Prefix, Exact, and ImplementationSpecific. To match the behavior of not defining the path type in v1beta1, use ImplementationSpecific.

IngressClass

networking.k8s.io/v1beta1

networking.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.19.)

None

ClusterRole

ClusterRoleBinding

Role

RoleBinding

rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1

rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.8.)

None

PriorityClass

scheduling.k8s.io/v1beta1

scheduling.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.14.)

None

CSIDriver

CSINode

StorageClass

VolumeAttachment

storage.k8s.io/v1beta1

storage.k8s.io/v1

• CSIDriver is available in storage.k8s.io/v1 since v1.19.
• CSINode is available in storage.k8s.io/v1 since v1.17.
• StorageClass is available in storage.k8s.io/v1 since v1.6.
• VolumeAttachment is available in storage.k8s.io/v1 since v1.13.

NetworkPolicy

extensions/v1beta1

networking.k8s.io/v1

(This API is available since v1.8.)

None

DaemonSet

extensions/v1beta1

apps/v1beta2

apps/v1

(This API is available since v1.9.)

• The spec.templateGeneration field is deleted.
• spec.selector is now a mandatory field and cannot be changed after the object is created. The label of an existing template can be used as a selector for seamless migration.
• The default value of spec.updateStrategy.type is changed to RollingUpdate (the default value in the extensions/v1beta1 API version is OnDelete).

Deployment

extensions/v1beta1

apps/v1beta1

apps/v1beta2

apps/v1

(This API is available since v1.9.)

• The spec.rollbackTo field is deleted.
• spec.selector is now a mandatory field and cannot be changed after the Deployment is created. The label of an existing template can be used as a selector for seamless migration.
• The default value of spec.progressDeadlineSeconds is changed to 600 seconds (the default value in extensions/v1beta1 is unlimited).
• The default value of spec.revisionHistoryLimit is changed to 10. (In the apps/v1beta1 API version, the default value of this field is 2. In the extensions/v1beta1 API version, all historical records are retained by default.)
• The default values of maxSurge and maxUnavailable are changed to 25%. (In the extensions/v1beta1 API version, these fields default to 1.)

StatefulSet

apps/v1beta1

apps/v1beta2

apps/v1

(This API is available since v1.9.)

• spec.selector is now a mandatory field and cannot be changed after the StatefulSet is created. The label of an existing template can be used as a selector for seamless migration.
• The default value of spec.updateStrategy.type is changed to RollingUpdate (the default value in the apps/v1beta1 API version is OnDelete).

ReplicaSet

extensions/v1beta1

apps/v1beta1

apps/v1beta2

apps/v1

(This API is available since v1.9.)

spec.selector is now a mandatory field and cannot be changed after the object is created. The label of an existing template can be used as a selector for seamless migration.

PodSecurityPolicy

extensions/v1beta1

policy/v1beta1

(This API is available since v1.10.)

PodSecurityPolicy for the policy/v1beta1 API version will be removed in v1.25.

etcd data backup

etcd data

Automatic backup during an upgrade

1-5 minutes

2 hours

Mandatory. The backup is automatically performed during the upgrade.