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# Manually upgrade Defender DaemonSets

Upgrade the Defender DaemonSets in your environment.

## Upgrade the Defender DaemonSets with twistcli (Kubernetes)

Delete the Defender DaemonSet, then rerun the original install procedure.

**Prerequisites:** You know all the parameters passed to *twistcli* when you initially deployed the Defender DaemonSet. You’ll need them to recreate a working configuration file for your environment.

1. Delete the Defender DaemonSet.

   ```sh
   $ kubectl -n twistlock delete ds twistlock-defender-ds
   $ kubectl -n twistlock delete sa twistlock-service
   $ kubectl -n twistlock delete secret twistlock-secrets
   ```

## Upgrade the Defender DaemonSets with twistcli (OpenShift)

Delete the Defender DaemonSet, then rerun the original install procedure.

**Prerequisites:** You know all the parameters passed to *twistcli* when you initially deployed the Defender DaemonSet. You’ll need them to recreate a working configuration file for your environment.

1. Delete the Defender DaemonSet.

   ```sh
   $ oc -n twistlock delete ds twistlock-defender-ds
   $ oc -n twistlock delete sa twistlock-service
   $ oc -n twistlock delete secret twistlock-secrets
   ```

## Upgrade the Defender DaemonSets from Console

Upgrade the Defender DaemonSets directly from the Console UI.

If you can’t access your cluster with kubectl or oc, then you can upgrade Defender DaemonSets directly from the Console UI.

**Prerequisites:** You’ve created a xref:\~/authentication/credentials-store/kubernetes-credentials.adoc\[kubeconfig credential] for your cluster so that Prisma Cloud can access it to upgrade the Defender DaemonSet.

1. Log into Prisma Cloud Console.
2. Go to **Manage > Defenders > Manage**.
3. Click **DaemonSets**.
4. For each cluster in the table, click **Actions > Upgrade**.

   The table shows a count of deployed Defenders and their new version number.


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