How can I downgrade GKE master and exit Rapid channel

5/28/2020

I didn't notice my GKE cluster is in Rapid channel. Until today I want to add Node Pool.

It shows Node version "1.17.5-gke.6" is unsupported.

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/release-notes-rapid#may_27_2020

My questions are:

  1. How to downgrade GKE master version
  2. How to update a GKE cluster don't use rapid channel

I can't find anything about that in gcloud cli, official documents and stackoverflow.

-- RammusXu
google-cloud-platform
google-kubernetes-engine
kubernetes

1 Answer

5/28/2020

When you create a cluster you have two options to choose from

A. Realease channel [Rapid/Regular/Stable]

B. Static version

1.How to downgrade GKE master version.

From documentation, it mentions that if you are in release channel [Rapid/Regular/Stable], downgrading is not possible.

With static version it is possible to downgrade with the following limitations.

2.How to update a GKE cluster to not use rapid channel.

This is not possible and it will give the following error

Migrating off of releaseChannel RAPID is not supported.

More information can be also found here in regards to the migration between different release channels.

-- dany L
Source: StackOverflow