Is it possible to use in-place upgrade method for OpenShift RHEL Nodes upgrades?

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Issue

  • Can an in-place upgrade from RHEL-7 to RHEL-8 be done for OpenShift Nodes? Is it supported?
  • Can the RHEL7 OS used by OCP 4.8 be upgraded to RHEL8 when upgrading to OCP 4.9, without doing a clean install?

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    4.8
    4.9

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