The upgrade process (docs) follows the general procedure of:
- Upgrading the Kubernetes control plane with kubeadm (Kubernetes components and add-ons excluding the CNI)
- If applicable upgrading the CNI network plugin
- Upgrading the Kubernetes packages (kubelet, kubeadm, kubectl) on the control plane and worker nodes
- Upgrading the kubelet config on worker nodes with kubeadm
# check cluster nodes and version
kubectl get no -owide