Upgrades & configuration changes 2

Upgrades & configuration changes

This page should describe how to think about both upgrading UDS Core over time and making planned configuration or secret changes safely.

Include here:

• Supported/typical upgrade paths and any versioning guarantees.
• Operational expectations around release cadence and planning.
• High-level guidance on scheduling, maintenance windows, and pre/post checks.
• How to plan and execute configuration/secret changes (for example, using pod-reload) without unexpected downtime.

Step-by-step upgrade commands and any environment-specific flows (for example, RKE2 specifics) should live in How-to Guides, with this page linking to them for concrete procedures.

Source material from previous docs

• src/content/docs-old/reference/deployment/upgrades.md (mixed; pull planning/behavior details here, move shell examples to How-to/Ops runbooks)
• src/content/docs-old/reference/deployment/pod-reload.md (mixed; use for config/secret change behavior and safe rollout patterns)
• src/content/docs-old/reference/UDS Core/release-overview.md (mixed; planning and support policy belong here, marketing-style overview may move to Concepts)