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The nodes are not updated at the same time, but in turn. The node being updated changes its STATUS to Ready, SchedulingDisabled. As long as it remains in this state, you will notice that all the Pods implemented on it are eliminated and moved to the other available nodes (i.e. the node is in Drain state). Once the update is finished, it will return to to Ready and move on to the next node.

Ansible tags

There is a quick way to update only a single aspect of our cluster. Thanks to the tags, we can launch the playbook cluster.yml, which will only update a specific part of the configuration. Let's suppose we want to change the configuration of the ingress, present in the addons.yml file. We make our modification and then, instead of running the playbook upgrade-cluster.yml, we use the command

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