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Upgrading Kubernetes - Sidero Documentation
November 6, 2024 - The recommended method to upgrade Kubernetes is to use the talosctl upgrade-k8s command. This will automatically update the components needed to upgrade Kubernetes safely. Kubernetes upgrades are non-disruptive from Talos, but Kubelet upgrades ...
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Upgrade Talos Linux and Kubernetes | Eric Daly's Blog
January 21, 2025 - Upgrade one node: talosctl upgrade -n 10.0.50.11 --image factory.talos.dev/installer/88d1f7a5c4f1d3aba7df787c448c1d3d008ed29cfb34af53fa0df4336a56040b:v1.9.2 --preserve
Upgrade cluster Talos
Are you using a VIP for the API server? How many control plane nodes? More on reddit.com
Talos and k8s version mismatch preventing upgrades
I'm running talos 1.7.6 and kubernetes 1.32.0. I know talos 1.7.6 ships with kubernetes 1.30.3 and to be honest I have no idea how I got myself on 1.32.0. I'm almost certain I haven't run talosctl upgrade-k8s or anything similar although I accept there's good evidence to the contrary. More on github.com
Upgrade Path for Talos OS not have control/limit over version jumps against K8S
Bug Report Description We have in fisrt place, the K8s version: 1.28.9. We upgrade Talos Linux OS from > to: v1.6.8 > v1.7.7 > v1.8.4 > v1.9.6 > v1.11.5 *without problems. But when w... More on github.com
How to update proxy settings for running cluster?
There's a caveat here - kube-proxy is a bootstrap manifest, it lives fully in Kubernetes. Talos by default doesn't update them, so you need to run talosctl upgrade-k8s to the same Kubernetes version to get things updated. More on github.com
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Reddit
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r/kubernetes on Reddit: Upgrade cluster Talos
April 1, 2025 -
Hello everyone!
For those who have Talos clusters, how do you upgrade the installer?
I managed to upgrade from 1.7.6 to 1.7.7, but when upgrading from 1.7.7 to 1.8.0, the ETCD of the control planes no longer synchronizes correctly. I randomly lose access to the API across all my nodes.
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In my experience there are three things to keeping talos updated. Talos CLI (not sure if this is what you mean by upgrading the installer?) The node images and configuration Kubernetes 1. To update talosctl itself I use this: # removes old version of talos cli sudo rm /usr/local/bin/talosctl # download latest version of talos cli and installs it curl -sL https://talos.dev/install | sh 2. To patch the nodes with new images I use talosctl upgrade Here is an example with powershell to loop through selected nodes in the order that I like. The variable $mgmtVMs is just a list of vms from a csv file. # upgrade each node in the mgmt cluster to a new image, starting with control plane and then workers $upgradeList = $mgmtVMs | % { $p = "./node-patches/{0}/version.yaml" -f $_.Role $y = ConvertFrom-yaml (Get-Content $p -Raw) $IsoUrl = $y.machine.install.image [PSCustomObject]@{ IP = $_.IP Name = $_.Name IsoURL = $IsoUrl Role = $_.Role } } $upgradeList | Out-ConsoleGridView | Sort-Object Role, Id | % { "VM {0} started at {1} -- upgrade to {2}" -f $_.Name, (get-date -f 'HH:mm:ss'), $_.IsoURL talosctl upgrade --image $_.IsoURL --nodes $_.IP "{0} finished at {1}" -f $_.Name, (get-date -f 'HH:mm:ss') start-sleep 1 } Here is what that looks like if you are curious. https://i.imgur.com/KZbY2Wp.png 3. And of course to update kubernetes I would just use talosctl upgrade-k8s
Sander Sneekes
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Upgrading Talos Linux and Kubernetes - A Step-by-Step Guide | Sander Sneekes
January 24, 2025 - talosctl -n ${WORKER1} patch mc --mode=no-reboot -p '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/machine/kubelet/image", "value": "ghcr.io/siderolabs/kubelet:v'${K8S_INTERIM2}'"}]' talosctl -n ${WORKER2} patch mc --mode=no-reboot -p '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/machine/kubelet/image", "value": "ghcr.io/siderolabs/kubelet:v'${K8S_INTERIM2}'"}]' talosctl -n ${WORKER3} patch mc --mode=no-reboot -p '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/machine/kubelet/image", "value": "ghcr.io/siderolabs/kubelet:v'${K8S_INTERIM2}'"}]' talosctl -n ${WORKER4} patch mc --mode=no-reboot -p '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/machine/kubelet/image", "value": "ghcr.io/siderolabs/kubelet:v'${K8S_INTERIM2}'"}]' The upgrade process was successful, resulting in a fully updated cluster running Talos 1.9.2 and Kubernetes 1.31.5.
GitHub
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Talos and k8s version mismatch preventing upgrades · siderolabs/talos · Discussion #10447
April 19, 2025 - talosctl --nodes $CTL1_IP upgrade-k8s --to 1.35.4 --dry-run automatically detected the lowest Kubernetes version 1.35.2 discovered controlplane nodes ["192.168.50.180" "192.168.50.181" "192.168.50.182"] discovered worker nodes ["192.168.50.183" "192.168.50.184" "192.168.50.185" "192.168.50.186" "192.168.50.187" "192.168.50.188"] compatibility check failed on node "192.168.50.180": compatibility with version 1.13.0 is not supported
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Upgrading | Sidero Metal
April 18, 2022 - It is important, however, to take ... series using the upgrade instructions above. upgrade · After upgrade, carry out a talosctl convert-k8s to move from the self-hosted control plane to static pods....
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Releases · siderolabs/talos
560bcf0ca feat: enforce TLS 1.3 minmum version for Kubernetes components · 3db14309e fix(talosctl): ensure uncordon runs after reboot/upgrade errors · ecf2fa855 feat: update Kubernetes to v1.36.0 · 71557eadd fix(ci): skip misc jobs not on pull request · 026313b7c docs: rename security-insights.yml to lowercase for LFX detection ·
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github.com › siderolabs › talos › issues › 12398
Upgrade Path for Talos OS not have control/limit over version jumps against K8S · Issue #12398 · siderolabs/talos
December 11, 2025 - root@TALOS-OPERATOR:~# talosctl -n "$(kubectl get nodes -o wide | awk 'NR==2 {print $6}')" --talosconfig=talosconfig upgrade-k8s --to 1.29.14 automatically detected the lowest Kubernetes version 1.28.3 discovered controlplane nodes ["xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"] discovered worker nodes [] > "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx": Talos version 1.11.5 is compatible with Kubernetes version 1.29.14 checking for removed Kubernetes component flags checking for removed Kubernetes API resource versions > "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx": pre-pulling registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.29.14 > "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx": pre-pulling registry.k8s.io/kube-cont
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GitHub
github.com › siderolabs › talos › discussions › 11327
Best practice for true zero-downtime Kubernetes upgrades: Should we use `--upgrade-kubelet false` and manual kubelet upgrades? · siderolabs/talos · Discussion #11327
July 16, 2025 - I upgraded my test cluster using talosctl upgrade-k8s -n <control_plane_node_ip> --to $K8S_VERSION --upgrade-kubelet=false, which worked as expected. automatically detected the lowest Kubernetes version 1.32.9 updating "kube-apiserver" to version ...
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Linux OS for Kubernetes
Gives you a nice interface to handle rolling out config patches, rolling Talos and k8s updates, scaling up and down, and integrating with infrastructure providers to automatically provision machines. clintkev251 · Reddit · r/homelab · March 2026 · Two commands. Local cluster running in under a minute. Install · $brew install siderolabs/tap/talosctl ·