This page explains how to add versioning information to CustomResourceDefinitions, to indicate the stability level of your CustomResourceDefinitions or advance your API to a new version with conversion between API representations. It also describes how to upgrade an object from one version to another.
You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster. It is recommended to run this tutorial on a cluster with at least two nodes that are not acting as control plane hosts. If you do not already have a cluster, you can create one by using minikube or you can use one of these Kubernetes playgrounds:
You should have a initial understanding of custom resources.
Your Kubernetes server must be at or later than version v1.16. To check the version, enterkubectl version. The CustomResourceDefinition API provides a workflow for introducing and upgrading to new versions of a CustomResourceDefinition.
When a CustomResourceDefinition is created, the first version is set in the CustomResourceDefinition spec.versions list to an appropriate stability level and a version number. For example v1beta1 would indicate that the first version is not yet stable. All custom resource objects will initially be stored at this version.
Once the CustomResourceDefinition is created, clients may begin using the v1beta1 API.
Later it might be necessary to add new version such as v1.
Adding a new version:
None conversion strategy may be used and only the apiVersion field will be modified when serving different versions.spec.versions list with served:true. Also, set spec.conversion field to the selected conversion strategy. If using a conversion webhook, configure spec.conversion.webhookClientConfig field to call the webhook.Once the new version is added, clients may incrementally migrate to the new version. It is perfectly safe for some clients to use the old version while others use the new version.
Migrate stored objects to the new version:
It is safe for clients to use both the old and new version before, during and after upgrading the objects to a new stored version.
Removing an old version:
served to false for the old version in the spec.versions list. If any clients are still unexpectedly using the old version they may begin reporting errors attempting to access the custom resource objects at the old version. If this occurs, switch back to using served:true on the old version, migrate the remaining clients to the new version and repeat this step.storage is set to true for the new version in the spec.versions list in the CustomResourceDefinition.status.storedVersions.spec.versions list.The CustomResourceDefinition API versions field can be used to support multiple versions of custom resources that you have developed. Versions can have different schemas, and conversion webhooks can convert custom resources between versions. Webhook conversions should follow the Kubernetes API conventions wherever applicable. Specifically, See the API change documentation for a set of useful gotchas and suggestions.
apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1, there was a version field instead of versions. The version field is deprecated and optional, but if it is not empty, it must match the first item in the versions field. This example shows a CustomResourceDefinition with two versions. For the first example, the assumption is all versions share the same schema with no conversion between them. The comments in the YAML provide more context.
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
# name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: <plural>.<group>
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
# group name to use for REST API: /apis/<group>/<version>
group: example.com
# list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition
versions:
- name: v1beta1
# Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag.
served: true
# One and only one version must be marked as the storage version.
storage: true
# A schema is required
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
type: object
properties:
host:
type: string
port:
type: string
- name: v1
served: true
storage: false
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
type: object
properties:
host:
type: string
port:
type: string
# The conversion section is introduced in Kubernetes 1.13+ with a default value of
# None conversion (strategy sub-field set to None).
conversion:
# None conversion assumes the same schema for all versions and only sets the apiVersion
# field of custom resources to the proper value
strategy: None
# either Namespaced or Cluster
scope: Namespaced
names:
# plural name to be used in the URL: /apis/<group>/<version>/<plural>
plural: crontabs
# singular name to be used as an alias on the CLI and for display
singular: crontab
# kind is normally the CamelCased singular type. Your resource manifests use this.
kind: CronTab
# shortNames allow shorter string to match your resource on the CLI
shortNames:
- ct
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
# name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: <plural>.<group>
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
# group name to use for REST API: /apis/<group>/<version>
group: example.com
# list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition
versions:
- name: v1beta1
# Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag.
served: true
# One and only one version must be marked as the storage version.
storage: true
- name: v1
served: true
storage: false
validation:
openAPIV3Schema:
type: object
properties:
host:
type: string
port:
type: string
# The conversion section is introduced in Kubernetes 1.13+ with a default value of
# None conversion (strategy sub-field set to None).
conversion:
# None conversion assumes the same schema for all versions and only sets the apiVersion
# field of custom resources to the proper value
strategy: None
# either Namespaced or Cluster
scope: Namespaced
names:
# plural name to be used in the URL: /apis/<group>/<version>/<plural>
plural: crontabs
# singular name to be used as an alias on the CLI and for display
singular: crontab
# kind is normally the PascalCased singular type. Your resource manifests use this.
kind: CronTab
# shortNames allow shorter string to match your resource on the CLI
shortNames:
- ct
You can save the CustomResourceDefinition in a YAML file, then use kubectl apply to create it.
kubectl apply -f my-versioned-crontab.yaml
After creation, the API server starts to serve each enabled version at an HTTP REST endpoint. In the above example, the API versions are available at /apis/example.com/v1beta1 and /apis/example.com/v1.
Regardless of the order in which versions are defined in a CustomResourceDefinition, the version with the highest priority is used by kubectl as the default version to access objects. The priority is determined by parsing the name field to determine the version number, the stability (GA, Beta, or Alpha), and the sequence within that stability level.
The algorithm used for sorting the versions is designed to sort versions in the same way that the Kubernetes project sorts Kubernetes versions. Versions start with a v followed by a number, an optional beta or alpha designation, and optional additional numeric versioning information. Broadly, a version string might look like v2 or v2beta1. Versions are sorted using the following algorithm:
beta or alpha follow the first numeric portion, they sorted in that order, after the equivalent string without the beta or alpha suffix (which is presumed to be the GA version).beta, or alpha, those numbers are also sorted from largest to smallest.foo1 is sorted above foo10. This is different from the sorting of the numeric portion of entries that do follow the Kubernetes version patterns.This might make sense if you look at the following sorted version list:
- v10
- v2
- v1
- v11beta2
- v10beta3
- v3beta1
- v12alpha1
- v11alpha2
- foo1
- foo10
For the example in Specify multiple versions, the version sort order is v1, followed by v1beta1. This causes the kubectl command to use v1 as the default version unless the provided object specifies the version.
Kubernetes v1.19 [stable] Starting in v1.19, a CustomResourceDefinition can indicate a particular version of the resource it defines is deprecated. When API requests to a deprecated version of that resource are made, a warning message is returned in the API response as a header. The warning message for each deprecated version of the resource can be customized if desired.
A customized warning message should indicate the deprecated API group, version, and kind, and should indicate what API group, version, and kind should be used instead, if applicable.
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
group: example.com
names:
plural: crontabs
singular: crontab
kind: CronTab
scope: Namespaced
versions:
- name: v1alpha1
served: true
# This indicates the v1alpha1 version of the custom resource is deprecated.
# API requests to this version receive a warning header in the server response.
deprecated: true
# This overrides the default warning returned to API clients making v1alpha1 API requests.
deprecationWarning: "example.com/v1alpha1 CronTab is deprecated; see http://example.com/v1alpha1-v1 for instructions to migrate to example.com/v1 CronTab"
schema: ...
- name: v1beta1
served: true
# This indicates the v1beta1 version of the custom resource is deprecated.
# API requests to this version receive a warning header in the server response.
# A default warning message is returned for this version.
deprecated: true
schema: ...
- name: v1
served: true
storage: true
schema: ...
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
group: example.com
names:
plural: crontabs
singular: crontab
kind: CronTab
scope: Namespaced
validation: ...
versions:
- name: v1alpha1
served: true
# This indicates the v1alpha1 version of the custom resource is deprecated.
# API requests to this version receive a warning header in the server response.
deprecated: true
# This overrides the default warning returned to API clients making v1alpha1 API requests.
deprecationWarning: "example.com/v1alpha1 CronTab is deprecated; see http://example.com/v1alpha1-v1 for instructions to migrate to example.com/v1 CronTab"
- name: v1beta1
served: true
# This indicates the v1beta1 version of the custom resource is deprecated.
# API requests to this version receive a warning header in the server response.
# A default warning message is returned for this version.
deprecated: true
- name: v1
served: true
storage: true
Kubernetes v1.16 [stable] CustomResourceWebhookConversion feature must be enabled, which is the case automatically for many clusters for beta features. Please refer to the feature gate documentation for more information. The above example has a None conversion between versions which only sets the apiVersion field on conversion and does not change the rest of the object. The API server also supports webhook conversions that call an external service in case a conversion is required. For example when:
To cover all of these cases and to optimize conversion by the API server, the conversion requests may contain multiple objects in order to minimize the external calls. The webhook should perform these conversions independently.
Please refer to the implementation of the custom resource conversion webhook server that is validated in a Kubernetes e2e test. The webhook handles the ConversionReview requests sent by the API servers, and sends back conversion results wrapped in ConversionResponse. Note that the request contains a list of custom resources that need to be converted independently without changing the order of objects. The example server is organized in a way to be reused for other conversions. Most of the common code are located in the framework file that leaves only one function to be implemented for different conversions.
ClientAuth field empty, which defaults to NoClientCert. This means that the webhook server does not authenticate the identity of the clients, supposedly API servers. If you need mutual TLS or other ways to authenticate the clients, see how to authenticate API servers. A conversion webhook must not mutate anything inside of metadata of the converted object other than labels and annotations. Attempted changes to name, UID and namespace are rejected and fail the request which caused the conversion. All other changes are ignored.
Documentation for deploying the conversion webhook is the same as for the admission webhook example service. The assumption for next sections is that the conversion webhook server is deployed to a service named example-conversion-webhook-server in default namespace and serving traffic on path /crdconvert.
The None conversion example can be extended to use the conversion webhook by modifying conversion section of the spec:
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
# name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: <plural>.<group>
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
# group name to use for REST API: /apis/<group>/<version>
group: example.com
# list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition
versions:
- name: v1beta1
# Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag.
served: true
# One and only one version must be marked as the storage version.
storage: true
# Each version can define it's own schema when there is no top-level
# schema is defined.
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
type: object
properties:
hostPort:
type: string
- name: v1
served: true
storage: false
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
type: object
properties:
host:
type: string
port:
type: string
conversion:
# a Webhook strategy instruct API server to call an external webhook for any conversion between custom resources.
strategy: Webhook
# webhook is required when strategy is `Webhook` and it configures the webhook endpoint to be called by API server.
webhook:
# conversionReviewVersions indicates what ConversionReview versions are understood/preferred by the webhook.
# The first version in the list understood by the API server is sent to the webhook.
# The webhook must respond with a ConversionReview object in the same version it received.
conversionReviewVersions: ["v1","v1beta1"]
clientConfig:
service:
namespace: default
name: example-conversion-webhook-server
path: /crdconvert
caBundle: "Ci0tLS0tQk...<base64-encoded PEM bundle>...tLS0K"
# either Namespaced or Cluster
scope: Namespaced
names:
# plural name to be used in the URL: /apis/<group>/<version>/<plural>
plural: crontabs
# singular name to be used as an alias on the CLI and for display
singular: crontab
# kind is normally the CamelCased singular type. Your resource manifests use this.
kind: CronTab
# shortNames allow shorter string to match your resource on the CLI
shortNames:
- ct
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
# name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: <plural>.<group>
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
# group name to use for REST API: /apis/<group>/<version>
group: example.com
# prunes object fields that are not specified in OpenAPI schemas below.
preserveUnknownFields: false
# list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition
versions:
- name: v1beta1
# Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag.
served: true
# One and only one version must be marked as the storage version.
storage: true
# Each version can define it's own schema when there is no top-level
# schema is defined.
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
type: object
properties:
hostPort:
type: string
- name: v1
served: true
storage: false
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
type: object
properties:
host:
type: string
port:
type: string
conversion:
# a Webhook strategy instruct API server to call an external webhook for any conversion between custom resources.
strategy: Webhook
# webhookClientConfig is required when strategy is `Webhook` and it configures the webhook endpoint to be called by API server.
webhookClientConfig:
service:
namespace: default
name: example-conversion-webhook-server
path: /crdconvert
caBundle: "Ci0tLS0tQk...<base64-encoded PEM bundle>...tLS0K"
# either Namespaced or Cluster
scope: Namespaced
names:
# plural name to be used in the URL: /apis/<group>/<version>/<plural>
plural: crontabs
# singular name to be used as an alias on the CLI and for display
singular: crontab
# kind is normally the CamelCased singular type. Your resource manifests use this.
kind: CronTab
# shortNames allow shorter string to match your resource on the CLI
shortNames:
- ct
You can save the CustomResourceDefinition in a YAML file, then use kubectl apply to apply it.
kubectl apply -f my-versioned-crontab-with-conversion.yaml
Make sure the conversion service is up and running before applying new changes.
Once the API server has determined a request should be sent to a conversion webhook, it needs to know how to contact the webhook. This is specified in the webhookClientConfig stanza of the webhook configuration.
Conversion webhooks can either be called via a URL or a service reference, and can optionally include a custom CA bundle to use to verify the TLS connection.
url gives the location of the webhook, in standard URL form (scheme://host:port/path).
The host should not refer to a service running in the cluster; use a service reference by specifying the service field instead. The host might be resolved via external DNS in some apiservers (i.e., kube-apiserver cannot resolve in-cluster DNS as that would be a layering violation). host may also be an IP address.
Please note that using localhost or 127.0.0.1 as a host is risky unless you take great care to run this webhook on all hosts which run an apiserver which might need to make calls to this webhook. Such installations are likely to be non-portable or not readily run in a new cluster.
The scheme must be "https"; the URL must begin with "https://".
Attempting to use a user or basic auth (for example "user:password@") is not allowed. Fragments ("#...") and query parameters ("?...") are also not allowed.
Here is an example of a conversion webhook configured to call a URL (and expects the TLS certificate to be verified using system trust roots, so does not specify a caBundle):
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
...
spec:
...
conversion:
strategy: Webhook
webhook:
clientConfig:
url: "https://my-webhook.example.com:9443/my-webhook-path"
...
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
...
spec:
...
conversion:
strategy: Webhook
webhookClientConfig:
url: "https://my-webhook.example.com:9443/my-webhook-path"
...
The service stanza inside webhookClientConfig is a reference to the service for a conversion webhook. If the webhook is running within the cluster, then you should use service instead of url. The service namespace and name are required. The port is optional and defaults to 443. The path is optional and defaults to "/".
Here is an example of a webhook that is configured to call a service on port "1234" at the subpath "/my-path", and to verify the TLS connection against the ServerName my-service-name.my-service-namespace.svc using a custom CA bundle.
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
...
spec:
...
conversion:
strategy: Webhook
webhook:
clientConfig:
service:
namespace: my-service-namespace
name: my-service-name
path: /my-path
port: 1234
caBundle: "Ci0tLS0tQk...<base64-encoded PEM bundle>...tLS0K"
...
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
...
spec:
...
conversion:
strategy: Webhook
webhookClientConfig:
service:
namespace: my-service-namespace
name: my-service-name
path: /my-path
port: 1234
caBundle: "Ci0tLS0tQk...<base64-encoded PEM bundle>...tLS0K"
...
Webhooks are sent a POST request, with Content-Type: application/json, with a ConversionReview API object in the apiextensions.k8s.io API group serialized to JSON as the body.
Webhooks can specify what versions of ConversionReview objects they accept with the conversionReviewVersions field in their CustomResourceDefinition:
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
...
spec:
...
conversion:
strategy: Webhook
webhook:
conversionReviewVersions: ["v1", "v1beta1"]
...
conversionReviewVersions is a required field when creating apiextensions.k8s.io/v1 custom resource definitions. Webhooks are required to support at least one ConversionReview version understood by the current and previous API server.
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
...
spec:
...
conversion:
strategy: Webhook
conversionReviewVersions: ["v1", "v1beta1"]
...
If no conversionReviewVersions are specified, the default when creating apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1 custom resource definitions is v1beta1.
API servers send the first ConversionReview version in the conversionReviewVersions list they support. If none of the versions in the list are supported by the API server, the custom resource definition will not be allowed to be created. If an API server encounters a conversion webhook configuration that was previously created and does not support any of the ConversionReview versions the API server knows how to send, attempts to call to the webhook will fail.
This example shows the data contained in an ConversionReview object for a request to convert CronTab objects to example.com/v1:
{
"apiVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1",
"kind": "ConversionReview",
"request": {
# Random uid uniquely identifying this conversion call
"uid": "705ab4f5-6393-11e8-b7cc-42010a800002",
# The API group and version the objects should be converted to
"desiredAPIVersion": "example.com/v1",
# The list of objects to convert.
# May contain one or more objects, in one or more versions.
"objects": [
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1beta1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-04T14:03:02Z",
"name": "local-crontab",
"namespace": "default",
"resourceVersion": "143",
"uid": "3415a7fc-162b-4300-b5da-fd6083580d66"
},
"hostPort": "localhost:1234"
},
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1beta1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-03T13:02:01Z",
"name": "remote-crontab",
"resourceVersion": "12893",
"uid": "359a83ec-b575-460d-b553-d859cedde8a0"
},
"hostPort": "example.com:2345"
}
]
}
}
{
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
"apiVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1",
"kind": "ConversionReview",
"request": {
# Random uid uniquely identifying this conversion call
"uid": "705ab4f5-6393-11e8-b7cc-42010a800002",
# The API group and version the objects should be converted to
"desiredAPIVersion": "example.com/v1",
# The list of objects to convert.
# May contain one or more objects, in one or more versions.
"objects": [
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1beta1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-04T14:03:02Z",
"name": "local-crontab",
"namespace": "default",
"resourceVersion": "143",
"uid": "3415a7fc-162b-4300-b5da-fd6083580d66"
},
"hostPort": "localhost:1234"
},
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1beta1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-03T13:02:01Z",
"name": "remote-crontab",
"resourceVersion": "12893",
"uid": "359a83ec-b575-460d-b553-d859cedde8a0"
},
"hostPort": "example.com:2345"
}
]
}
}
Webhooks respond with a 200 HTTP status code, Content-Type: application/json, and a body containing a ConversionReview object (in the same version they were sent), with the response stanza populated, serialized to JSON.
If conversion succeeds, a webhook should return a response stanza containing the following fields:
uid, copied from the request.uid sent to the webhookresult, set to {"status":"Success"}
convertedObjects, containing all of the objects from request.objects, converted to request.desiredVersion
Example of a minimal successful response from a webhook:
{
"apiVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1",
"kind": "ConversionReview",
"response": {
# must match <request.uid>
"uid": "705ab4f5-6393-11e8-b7cc-42010a800002",
"result": {
"status": "Success"
},
# Objects must match the order of request.objects, and have apiVersion set to <request.desiredAPIVersion>.
# kind, metadata.uid, metadata.name, and metadata.namespace fields must not be changed by the webhook.
# metadata.labels and metadata.annotations fields may be changed by the webhook.
# All other changes to metadata fields by the webhook are ignored.
"convertedObjects": [
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-04T14:03:02Z",
"name": "local-crontab",
"namespace": "default",
"resourceVersion": "143",
"uid": "3415a7fc-162b-4300-b5da-fd6083580d66"
},
"host": "localhost",
"port": "1234"
},
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-03T13:02:01Z",
"name": "remote-crontab",
"resourceVersion": "12893",
"uid": "359a83ec-b575-460d-b553-d859cedde8a0"
},
"host": "example.com",
"port": "2345"
}
]
}
}
{
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
"apiVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1",
"kind": "ConversionReview",
"response": {
# must match <request.uid>
"uid": "705ab4f5-6393-11e8-b7cc-42010a800002",
"result": {
"status": "Failed"
},
# Objects must match the order of request.objects, and have apiVersion set to <request.desiredAPIVersion>.
# kind, metadata.uid, metadata.name, and metadata.namespace fields must not be changed by the webhook.
# metadata.labels and metadata.annotations fields may be changed by the webhook.
# All other changes to metadata fields by the webhook are ignored.
"convertedObjects": [
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-04T14:03:02Z",
"name": "local-crontab",
"namespace": "default",
"resourceVersion": "143",
"uid": "3415a7fc-162b-4300-b5da-fd6083580d66"
},
"host": "localhost",
"port": "1234"
},
{
"kind": "CronTab",
"apiVersion": "example.com/v1",
"metadata": {
"creationTimestamp": "2019-09-03T13:02:01Z",
"name": "remote-crontab",
"resourceVersion": "12893",
"uid": "359a83ec-b575-460d-b553-d859cedde8a0"
},
"host": "example.com",
"port": "2345"
}
]
}
}
If conversion fails, a webhook should return a response stanza containing the following fields:
uid, copied from the request.uid sent to the webhookresult, set to {"status":"Failed"}
Example of a response from a webhook indicating a conversion request failed, with an optional message:
{
"apiVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1",
"kind": "ConversionReview",
"response": {
"uid": "<value from request.uid>",
"result": {
"status": "Failed",
"message": "hostPort could not be parsed into a separate host and port"
}
}
}
{
# Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
"apiVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1",
"kind": "ConversionReview",
"response": {
"uid": "<value from request.uid>",
"result": {
"status": "Failed",
"message": "hostPort could not be parsed into a separate host and port"
}
}
}
When an object is written, it is persisted at the version designated as the storage version at the time of the write. If the storage version changes, existing objects are never converted automatically. However, newly-created or updated objects are written at the new storage version. It is possible for an object to have been written at a version that is no longer served.
When you read an object, you specify the version as part of the path. If you specify a version that is different from the object's persisted version, Kubernetes returns the object to you at the version you requested, but the persisted object is neither changed on disk, nor converted in any way (other than changing the apiVersion string) while serving the request. You can request an object at any version that is currently served.
If you update an existing object, it is rewritten at the version that is currently the storage version. This is the only way that objects can change from one version to another.
To illustrate this, consider the following hypothetical series of events:
v1beta1. You create an object. It is persisted in storage at version v1beta1
v1 to your CustomResourceDefinition and designate it as the storage version.v1beta1, then you read the object again at version v1. Both returned objects are identical except for the apiVersion field.v1. You now have two objects, one of which is at v1beta1, and the other of which is at v1.v1 since that is the current storage version.The API server records each version which has ever been marked as the storage version in the status field storedVersions. Objects may have been persisted at any version that has ever been designated as a storage version. No objects can exist in storage at a version that has never been a storage version.
When deprecating versions and dropping support, select a storage upgrade procedure.
Option 1: Use the Storage Version Migrator
status.storedVersions field.Option 2: Manually upgrade the existing objects to a new stored version
The following is an example procedure to upgrade from v1beta1 to v1.
v1 as the storage in the CustomResourceDefinition file and apply it using kubectl. The storedVersions is now v1beta1, v1.v1.v1beta1 from the CustomResourceDefinition status.storedVersions field.The kubectl tool currently cannot be used to edit or patch the status subresource on a CRD: see the Kubectl Subresource Support KEP for more details.
The easier way to patch the status subresource from the CLI is directly interacting with the API server using the curl tool, in this example:
kubectl proxy &
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json-patch+json" \
--request PATCH http://localhost:8001/apis/apiextensions.k8s.io/v1/customresourcedefinitions/<your CRD name here>/status \
--data '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/status/storedVersions", "value":["v1"]}]'
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