Enable Auto-Upgrade for GKE Cluster Nodes

01 Sign in to the Google Cloud Management Console.

02 Select the GCP project that you want to examine from the console top navigation bar.

03 Navigate to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) console at https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes.

04 In the main navigation panel, under Kubernetes Engine, select Clusters to access the list with the GKE clusters provisioned within the selected project.

05 Click on the name (link) of the GKE cluster that you want to examine.

06 Select the NODES tab to access the node pools created for the selected cluster.

07 Click on the name (link) of the cluster node pool that you want to examine.

08 In the Management section, check the Auto-upgrade feature status. If Auto-upgrade is set to Disabled, the Auto-Upgrade feature is not enabled for the nodes running within the selected Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster node pool.

09 Repeat steps no. 7 and 8 for each node pool provisioned for the selected GKE cluster.

10 Repeat steps no. 5 – 9 for each GKE cluster created for the selected GCP project.

11 Repeat steps no. 2 – 10 for each project deployed within your Google Cloud account.

01 Run projects list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) with custom query filters to list the ID of each project available in your Google Cloud account:

gcloud projects list
  --format="table(projectId)"

02 The command output should return the requested GCP project ID(s):

PROJECT_ID
cc-bigdata-project-123123
cc-iot-app-project-112233

03 Run container clusters list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the ID of the GCP project that you want to examine as the identifier parameter and custom query filters to describe the name and the region of each GKE cluster created for the selected project:

gcloud container clusters list
  --project cc-bigdata-project-123123
  --format="(NAME,LOCATION)"

04 The command output should return the requested cluster names and their regions:

NAME                     LOCATION
cc-gke-frontend-cluster  us-central1
cc-gke-backend-cluster   us-central1

05 Run container node-pools list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the name of the GKE cluster that you want to examine as the identifier parameter, to describe the name of each node pool provisioned for the selected cluster:

gcloud container node-pools list
  --cluster=cc-gke-frontend-cluster
  --region=us-central1
  --format="(NAME)"

06 The command output should return the requested cluster node pool name(s):

NAME
cc-gke-frontend-pool-001
cc-gke-frontend-pool-002
cc-gke-frontend-pool-003

07 Run container node-pools describe command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the name of the cluster node pool that you want to examine as the identifier parameter and custom output filtering to describe the Auto-Upgrade feature status for the selected node pool:

gcloud container node-pools describe cc-gke-frontend-pool-001
  --cluster=cc-gke-frontend-cluster
  --region=us-central1
  --format="yaml(management.autoUpgrade)"

08 The command output should return the requested feature status:

management: {}

09 Repeat step no. 7 and 8 for each node pool provisioned for the selected GKE cluster.

10 Repeat steps no. 5 – 9 for each GKE cluster created for the selected GCP project.

11 Repeat steps no. 3 – 10 for each GCP project deployed in your Google Cloud account.

01 Sign in to the Google Cloud Management Console.

02 Select the GCP project that you want to examine from the console top navigation bar.

03 Navigate to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) console at https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes.

04 In the main navigation panel, under Kubernetes Engine, select Clusters to access the list with the GKE clusters provisioned within the selected project.

05 Click on the name (link) of the GKE cluster that you want to access.

06 Select the NODES tab to access the node pools created for the selected cluster.

07 Click on the name (link) of the cluster node pool that you want to reconfigure.

08 Choose EDIT from the console top menu to modify the configuration settings available for the selected node pool.

09 On the Edit node pool configuration page, perform the following operations:

1. In the Management section, select the Enable auto-upgrade checkbox to enable the Auto-Upgrade feature for the selected GKE cluster node pool.
2. Choose SAVE to apply the changes.

10 Repeat steps no. 7 – 9 to enable Auto-Upgrade for other node pools provisioned for the selected GKE cluster.

11 Repeat steps no. 5 – 10 for each GKE cluster created for the selected GCP project.

12 Repeat steps no. 2 – 11 for each project deployed within your Google Cloud account.

01 Run container node-pools update command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the name of the GKE cluster node pool that you want to reconfigure as the identifier parameter, to enable the Auto-Upgrade feature for the selected node pool:

gcloud container node-pools update cc-gke-frontend-pool-001
  --cluster=cc-gke-frontend-cluster
  --region=us-central1
  --enable-autoupgrade

02 The command output should return the URL of the reconfigured GKE cluster node pool:

Updating node pool cc-gke-frontend-pool-001...done.
Updated [https://container.googleapis.com/v1/projects/cc-bigdata-project-123123/zones/us-central1/clusters/cc-gke-frontend-cluster/nodePools/cc-gke-frontend-pool-001].

03 Repeat steps no. 1 and 2 to enable Auto-Upgrade for other node pools created for the selected GKE cluster.

04 Repeat steps no. 1 – 3 for each GKE cluster available for the selected GCP project.

05 Repeat steps no. 1 – 4 for each project deployed within your Google Cloud account.