Rancher upgrader informs users on rancher release, helps users upgrade, and enforces rancher's supported upgrade path.

Rancher-upgrader's main goal is to educate users on what they're signing up for when performing a certain upgrade. The actual upgrade is just a bonus.

Features

• Enforces support upgrade path: will upgrade to latest patch, if already on latest patch will upgrade to latest patch of next minor
• Parses relevant notes for all releases between current and target release.
  • Displays some major bugfixes and provides link to full release notes
  • Walks through known issues and prompts users to acknowledge each one before proceeding
• Reuse active override values
• Preview override values only or override values + values
• Edit override values by passing values yaml file

Requirements

• pass valid kubeconfig with --kubeconfig flag
• run rancher-upgrader on machine with helm install
  • have rancher-stable chart repository installed

How to Use

rancher-upgrader --kubeconfig=<kube-config-path> upgrade

The "upgrade" command will provide the user with an interactive prompt that guides them through an upgrade and everything they need to know.