KUBERNETES / SRE

Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Upgrade Factory

Automated upgrade pipeline from K8s 1.24 β†’ 1.30 with canary rollouts and testing

The Challenge

A fintech company had 20+ production Kubernetes clusters running outdated versions (1.24-1.26), creating security vulnerabilities and compatibility issues. Manual upgrades took entire weekends with multiple rollbacks, service disruptions, and team burnout. They needed a way to safely upgrade to the latest versions without downtime.

Automated Upgrade Solution

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Blue/Green Node Pools

Create new node pools with upgraded version, migrate workloads gradually, then drain old nodes. Zero impact on running services.

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Canary Rollouts

Test upgrades on staging clusters first, then canary production clusters (5% β†’ 25% β†’ 100%) with automatic rollback on failures.

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Automated Testing

Run comprehensive test suites on upgraded clusters: API compatibility, workload functionality, performance benchmarks, security scans.

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Upgrade Pipeline

Fully automated upgrade orchestration with pre-flight checks, sequential cluster upgrades, validation gates, and audit trails.

Results & Impact

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Downtime incidents

All upgrades completed without service disruption

95%

Faster upgrade cycles

From 48 hours to 4 hours per cluster

100%

Clusters up-to-date

All 20+ clusters on K8s 1.30

90%

Reduced manual effort

Automated testing and validation

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