In this master class Matt Mattox, Principal Support Engineer at Rancher (now a part of SUSE), will address the high-level steps required to plan and perform a Rancher and Kubernetes upgrade. We will go over planning the upgrade and selecting versions. Then we’ll plan out the change controls needed for the upgrade, including the required maintenance windows. We will also walk through different upgrades, including rolling back from a failed upgrade. Finally, We will cover how to automate upgrades.

Agenda:

• Planning your Rancher / k8s versions
• Creating your change controls
• Pre-upgrade data collection and prep work
• Rancher upgrade demos
• Upgrade rollback and recovery
• Post-upgrade steps
• Automating your upgrade process