Kubectl update/upgrade and view version is not matching

Question

I dit a new install of kubectl and after i get the message:

Warnings: - kubernetes-cli - kubernetes-cli v1.13.3 already installed. Use --force to reinstall, specify a version to install, or try upgrade.

But when I ask kubectl version I get this information:

C:\Users\myname> kubectl version

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"10", GitVersion:"v1.10.11", GitCommit:"637c7e288581ee40ab4ca210618a89a555b6e7e9", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-11-26T14:38:32Z", GoVersion:"go1.9.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"windows/amd64"} Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"11", GitVersion:"v1.11.5", GitCommit:"753b2dbc622f5cc417845f0ff8a77f539a4213ea", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-11-26T14:31:35Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

Why I don't find the version number 1.13 in the version information's?

Answer 1

In my case, I had this issue because I have both Docker and the Kubernetes CLI installed; at time of writing, Docker currently ships with version v1.10 of kubectl, whereas the Kubernetes CLI ships with v1.14

The simple solution was just to re-order my environment variables so that the Docker version of kubectl was after the Kubernetes CLI version