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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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### Synopsis


Upgrade commands for a node in the cluster

The "node" command executes the following phases:
```
preflight       Run upgrade node pre-flight checks
control-plane   Upgrade the control plane instance deployed on this node, if any
kubelet-config  Upgrade the kubelet configuration for this node
addon           Upgrade the default kubeadm addons
  /coredns        Upgrade the CoreDNS addon
  /kube-proxy     Upgrade the kube-proxy addon
post-upgrade    Run post upgrade tasks
```


```
kubeadm upgrade node [flags]
```

### Options

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<td colspan="2">--certificate-renewal&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Default: true</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Perform the renewal of certificates used by component changed during upgrades.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--config string</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Path to a kubeadm configuration file.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--dry-run</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Do not change any state, just output the actions that would be performed.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--etcd-upgrade&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Default: true</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Perform the upgrade of etcd.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">-h, --help</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>help for node</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--ignore-preflight-errors strings</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>A list of checks whose errors will be shown as warnings. Example: 'IsPrivilegedUser,Swap'. Value 'all' ignores errors from all checks.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--kubeconfig string&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf"</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--patches string</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Path to a directory that contains files named &quot;target[suffix][+patchtype].extension&quot;. For example, &quot;kube-apiserver0+merge.yaml&quot; or just &quot;etcd.json&quot;. &quot;target&quot; can be one of &quot;kube-apiserver&quot;, &quot;kube-controller-manager&quot;, &quot;kube-scheduler&quot;, &quot;etcd&quot;, &quot;kubeletconfiguration&quot;, &quot;corednsdeployment&quot;. &quot;patchtype&quot; can be one of &quot;strategic&quot;, &quot;merge&quot; or &quot;json&quot; and they match the patch formats supported by kubectl. The default &quot;patchtype&quot; is &quot;strategic&quot;. &quot;extension&quot; must be either &quot;json&quot; or &quot;yaml&quot;. &quot;suffix&quot; is an optional string that can be used to determine which patches are applied first alpha-numerically.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--skip-phases strings</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>List of phases to be skipped</p></td>
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### Options inherited from parent commands

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<td colspan="2">--rootfs string</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.</p></td>
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