silver-surfer VS kube-no-trouble

git clone https://github.com/devtron-labs/silver-surfer.git cd silver-surfer go mod vendor go mod download make

Upgrades using eksctl are easy and enabling pod disruption budgets let you do the upgrades without any downtime. Do remember to check for any removed apis in the target cluster version (k8s 1.22 has removed a lot of apis) before you upgrade. I use an open source tool silversurfer for the same.

kops - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management silver-surfer - Check ApiVersion compatibility and provide Migration path for Kubernetes objects when upgrading Kubernetes to latest versions Kube-ops-view - Kubernetes Operational View - read-only system dashboard for multiple K8s clusters kubeprompt - Kubernetes prompt info Metalk8s - An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on long-term on-prem deployments kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes Clusterman - Cluster Autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos Cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates Goldilocks - Get your resource requests "Just Right" katafygio - Dump, or continuously backup Kubernetes objets as yaml files in git Rancher - Complete container management platform Sealed Secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets OpenKruise/Kruise - Automate application workloads management on Kubernetes https://openkruise.io kubectl snapshot - Take Cluster Snapshots kapp - simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label https://get-kapp.io keda - Event-driven autoscaler for Kubernetes Octant - To better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters Portainer - Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment Gardener - Deliver fully-managed clusters at scale everywhere with your own Kubernetes-as-a-Service Kubed - Kubernetes Cluster Operator Daemon Kubestack - Kubestack is the free and open-source GitOps framework to codify your custom platform stack using Terraform.

Silver Surfer

devtron-labs/silver-surfer

We also leverage tools like Kubent, popeye, kdave, and Pluto to help us manage API deprecations (when Kubernetes deprecates features in updates) and ensure the overall health of our infrastructure.

kubent has been my goto for this - you point it at your cluster, tell it the target version you want to use, and it'll let you know if you have any depreciated resources and what you'll need to change. It's simple to use, quick, and just does the job.

You have to constantly run tools like https://github.com/doitintl/kube-no-trouble / https://github.com/FairwindsOps/pluto.

A great tool for checking depreciations is kubent/kube-no-trouble: https://github.com/doitintl/kube-no-trouble

https://github.com/doitintl/kube-no-trouble can be used to check for deprecated/removed APIs - you'll need to fix these in your codebase. You should fix these before upgrading your cluster

Just upgraded a few clusters from 1.21 to 1.24 the past few weeks. Used kubent (Kube No Trouble https://github.com/doitintl/kube-no-trouble) before upgrading and reviewed the output. Pretty painless process all in all.