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doctl kubernetes cluster update

Generated on 10 Jun 2025 from doctl version v1.130.0

Usage

doctl kubernetes cluster update <id|name> [flags]

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Description

Updates the configuration values for a Kubernetes cluster. The cluster must be referred to by its name or ID. Use the doctl kubernetes cluster list command to get a list of clusters on your account.

Example

The following example updates a cluster named example-cluster to enable automatic upgrades and sets the maintenance window to saturday=02:00:

doctl kubernetes cluster update example-cluster --auto-upgrade --maintenance-window saturday=02:00

Flags

Option	Description
`--auto-upgrade`	Indicates whether the cluster automatically upgrades to new patch releases during its maintenance window. To enable automatic upgrade, use `--auto-upgrade=true`. Default: `false`
`--cluster-name`	Specifies a new cluster name
`--control-plane-firewall-allowed-addresses`	A comma-separated list of allowed addresses that can access the control plane.
`--enable-control-plane-firewall`	Creates the cluster with control plane firewall enabled. Defaults to false. To enable the control plane firewall, supply –enable-control-plane-firewall=true. Default: `false`
`--enable-routing-agent`	Creates the cluster with routing-agent enabled. Defaults to false. To enable routing-agent, supply –routing-agent=true. Default: `false`
`--expanders`	Customizes expanders used by cluster-autoscaler. The autoscaler will apply each expander from the provided comma-separated list to narrow down the selection of node types created to scale up, until either a single node type is left, or the list of expanders is exhausted. Available expanders: random, least-waste, priority. If this value is empty, autoscaler will use its default expanders. To unset expander customization, pass an empty string.
`--ha`	Enables the highly-available control plane for the cluster Default: `false`
`--help`, `-h`	Help for this command
`--maintenance-window`	Sets the beginning of the four hour maintenance window for the cluster. Syntax is in the format: ‘day=HH:MM’, where time is in UTC. Day can be: `any`, `monday`, `tuesday`, `wednesday`, `thursday`, `friday`, `saturday`, `sunday`. Default: `any=00:00`
`--scale-down-unneeded-time`	The unneed time for the cluster autoscaler’s scale-down-unneeded-time. It defines how long a node should be unneeded before it is eligible for scale down. To set the scale-down-unneeded-time to a minute and 30 seconds for example, pass the string ‘1m30s’.
`--scale-down-utilization-threshold`	The threshold value for the cluster autoscaler’s scale-down-utilization-threshold. It is the maximum value between the sum of CPU requests and sum of memory requests of all pods running on the node divided by node’s corresponding allocatable resource, below which a node can be considered for scale down. To set the scale-down-utilization-threshold to 50%, pass the floating point value 0.5.
`--set-current-context`	Sets the current kubectl context to that of the new cluster Default: `true`
`--surge-upgrade`	Enables surge-upgrade for the cluster Default: `false`
`--tag`	A comma-separated list of tags to apply to the cluster. This removes other user-provided tags from the cluster if they are not specified in this argument.
`--update-kubeconfig`	Updates the cluster in your kubeconfig Default: `true`

Command	Description
doctl kubernetes cluster	Display commands for managing Kubernetes clusters

Global Flags

Option	Description
`--access-token`, `-t`	API V2 access token
`--api-url`, `-u`	Override default API endpoint
`--config`, `-c`	Specify a custom config file Default:
`--context`	Specify a custom authentication context name
`--http-retry-max`	Set maximum number of retries for requests that fail with a 429 or 500-level error Default: `5`
`--http-retry-wait-max`	Set the minimum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `30`
`--http-retry-wait-min`	Set the maximum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `1`
`--interactive`	Enable interactive behavior. Defaults to true if the terminal supports it (default false) Default: `false`
`--output`, `-o`	Desired output format [text\|json] Default: `text`
`--trace`	Show a log of network activity while performing a command Default: `false`
`--verbose`, `-v`	Enable verbose output Default: `false`