MEmerb·May 12, 2018
running into bugs and that I need to ssh into the nodes ;) (serious answer)
I can basically automate nearly everything, os updates (coreos), deployment updates (ci/cd), however updating etcd or k8s is a manual operation on bare metal, either I'm on bootkube than I need to login and update kubectl, than I need to update all daemonsets/deployments in kube-system (it's not always easy and bootkube has strange bugs, https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/bootkube/issues/977)
So one should actually use kubeadm, once again I still need to update kubelet, so I need to ssh into the machine (anyway) I also need to update kubeadm and run it, again a manual operation.
*ssh means I need to do it on my own, for small clusters this can be done manually for bigger clusters it can be scripted via ansible or even better create an own software that does i
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t. My point is, that's the only thing which is not "just works" on k8s (yet).
Edit: I also run into a bug that I could not upgrade k8s with kubeadm (but thats gonna be fixed soon: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/727)
Edit2: the good thing is that reloading kubelet won't kill anything.