---
name: "kubeadm-upgrade-plan"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kubeadm"
version: "1.37.2-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kubeadm-upgrade-plan"
---

# kubeadm-upgrade-plan(1)

Check which versions are available to upgrade to and validate whether your current cluster is upgradeable.

Eric Paris Jan 2015

## NAME

kubeadm upgrade plan - Check which versions are available to upgrade to and validate whether your current cluster is upgradeable.

## SYNOPSIS

**kubeadm upgrade plan** \[OPTIONS\]

## DESCRIPTION

Check which versions are available to upgrade to and validate whether your current cluster is upgradeable. This command can only run on the control plane nodes where the kubeconfig file "admin.conf" exists. To skip the internet check, pass in the optional \[version\] parameter.

## OPTIONS

**--allow-experimental-upgrades**=false\
 	Show unstable versions of Kubernetes as an upgrade alternative and allow upgrading to an alpha/beta/release candidate versions of Kubernetes.

**--allow-missing-template-keys**=true\
 	If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.

**--allow-release-candidate-upgrades**=false\
 	Show release candidate versions of Kubernetes as an upgrade alternative and allow upgrading to a release candidate versions of Kubernetes.

**--config**=""\
 	Path to a kubeadm configuration file.

**--etcd-upgrade**=true\
 	Perform the upgrade of etcd.

**--ignore-preflight-errors**=\[\]\
 	A list of checks whose errors will be shown as warnings. Example: 'IsPrivilegedUser,Swap'. Value 'all' ignores errors from all checks.

**--kubeconfig**="/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf"\
 	The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.

**-o**, **--output**="text"\
 	Output format. One of: text\|json\|yaml\|kyaml\|go-template\|go-template-file\|template\|templatefile\|jsonpath\|jsonpath-as-json\|jsonpath-file.

**--print-config**=false\
 	Specifies whether the configuration file that will be used in the upgrade should be printed or not.

**--show-managed-fields**=false\
 	If true, keep the managedFields when printing objects in JSON or YAML format.

## OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

**--rootfs**=""\
 	The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.

**--version**=false\
 	\--version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version

## SEE ALSO

**[kubeadm-upgrade(1)](/kubeadm-upgrade/1.md)**,

## HISTORY

January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since!