AKS Learn feedback: Whether a manual upgrade is possible

[torumakabe]

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As this article explains, AKS Automatic cluster upgrades are pre-configured; however, is it possible to perform an upgrade manually? Automatic upgrades are fine in principle, but there are times when I’d like to trigger one manually when I’m prepared to take the risk.

I tried to start the upgrade in the portal but couldn’t; however, I was able to do it by changing the kubernetesVersion in the Bicep code and redeploying. Is this a supported approach?

Note that when I changed the kubernetesVersion, the NAP node pool was upgraded, but the VMSS system node pool was not. I was able to upgrade it by separately changing the system node pool’s orchestratorVersion and redeploying. Is this intended behavior?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/intro-aks-automatic

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https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-aks-docs/blob/main/articles/aks/intro-aks-automatic.md

Author

@sabbour

Document Id

996a5f43-bb9b-a3b8-9e51-ca31c5272d1a

Platform Id

14d2d9ba-2814-325c-27fd-2cea27b7e5aa

[sabbour]

@torumakabe manual upgrades on demand should be possible, but you can't turn off auto upgrades.
You can also do az aks upgrade --kubernetes-version <a supported version>

[sabbour]

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