VMware Telco Cloud Automation (TCA) is integrated with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. To use the latest version 1.3.1 of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, you must upgrade the Tanzu Kubernetes management and workload clusters.

For information about the Kubernetes upgrade compatibility for the clusters, see Upgrade Kubernetes Version.

Procedure

  1. To upgrade the Tanzu Kubernetes cluster version specified in a cluster template, edit the template. For instructions, see Upgrade the Kubernetes version for Cluster Template.
  2. Upgrade the Tanzu Kubernetes management clusters.
    1. Download the new version (1.20.5, 1.19.9, or 1.18.17) of the base image template that the upgraded Tanzu Kubernetes cluster will run, and import the template into vSphere where the Tanzu Kubernetes cluster is located. For instructions, see Prepare to Upgrade Clusters on vSphere.
    2. Upgrade the Tanzu Kubernetes cluster. For instructions, see Upgrade the Kubernetes Version for a Cluster Instance
    3. Repeat Steps 2a and 2b to upgrade each Tanzu Kubernetes cluster.
  3. Upgrade the Tanzu Kubernetes workload clusters by repeating Steps 2a-2c.

Results

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters are upgraded successfully. All pods in the cluster are up and running.