Upgrade Confluent for Kubernetes¶

Before you start the upgrade process, make sure your Kubernetes cluster is among the Supported Environments for the target version of Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK).

We recommend that you perform this upgrade separate from making other changes to your clusters, such as scaling up, changing configuration, or rotating credentials.

To upgrade CFK:

Disable resource reconciliation.

To prevent Confluent Platform components from rolling restarts, temporarily disable resource reconciliation for each namespace where you have deployed the Confluent Platform component:
1. Get the components’ custom resource (CR) kinds and names:
```
kubectl get all --namespace <namespace> | grep platform.confluent.io
```
  The first column of the output contains the resource name in the format: <CR kind>/<CR name>.
  
  For example, in the following output, kafka.platform.confluent.io or shortly, kafka, is the CR kind, and kafka is the CR name:
```
kafka.platform.confluent.io/kafka
```
2. For each component listed in the previous step, disable the resource reconciliation:
```
kubectl annotate <component CR kind> <component CR name> \
  platform.confluent.io/block-reconcile=true \
  --namespace <namespace>
```

Add the CFK Helm repo:

helm repo add confluentinc https://packages.confluent.io/helm

helm repo update

Get the CFK chart.
- From the Helm repo:
  - To get the latest CFK chart:
```
helm pull confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes --untar
```
  - To get a specific version of the CFK chart, get the image tag of the CFK version from Confluent for Kubernetes image tags and versions, and specify the version tag with the --version flag:
```
helm pull confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes --version <CFK image tag> --untar
```
- From a download bundle as specified in Deploy Confluent for Kubernetes using the download bundle.

Upgrade Confluent Platform custom resource definitions (CRDs):

kubectl apply -f <CFK home>/confluent-for-kubernetes/crds/

Upgrade CFK to 2.0.4.

If you deployed CFK using the values file, update the CFK image.tag to 0.174.34 in your values.yaml:

image:
  tag: "0.174.34"

And run the following command to upgrade CFK:

helm upgrade --install confluent-operator \
  confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes \
  --values <path-to-values-file> \
  --namespace <namespace>

If you did not use a customized values.yaml for CFK deployment, run the following command to upgrade CFK:

helm upgrade --install confluent-operator \
  confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes \
  --namespace <namespace>

Alternatively, upgrade CFK to a specific version.
- If you deployed CFK using the values file, in your values.yaml, update the CFK image.tag to the image tag of the CFK version specified in Confluent for Kubernetes image tags and versions:
```
image:
  tag: "<CFK image tag>"
```
  And run the following command to upgrade CFK:
```
helm upgrade --install confluent-operator \
  confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes \
  --values <path-to-values-file> \
  --namespace <namespace>
```
- If you did not use a customized values.yaml for CFK deployment, run the following command to upgrade CFK to a specific version, using the image tag of the CFK version specified in Confluent for Kubernetes image tags and versions:
```
helm upgrade --install confluent-operator \
  confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes \
  --version <CFK image tag>
  --namespace <namespace>
```

Enable resource reconciliation for each Confluent Platform components that you disabled reconciliation in the first step above:

kubectl annotate <component CR kind> <cluster name> \
  platform.confluent.io/block-reconcile- \
  --namespace <namespace>