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 Alternatively, you can modify `/etc/fstab` to make the `/usr` mount writeable, but please
 be advised that this is modifying a design principle of the Linux distribution.
 
+## `kubeadm upgrade plan` prints out `context deadline exceeded` error message
 
+This error message is shown when upgrading a Kubernetes cluster with `kubeadm` in the case of running an external etcd. This is not a critical bug and happens because older versions of kubeadm perform a version check on the external etcd cluster. You can proceed with `kubeadm upgrade apply ...`. 
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+This issue is fixed as of version 1.19. 
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