Can I upgrade directly from 1.22 to 1.24 kubeadm cluster?

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I have production and test clusters that are running Kubernetes 1.22, and I received a task to upgrade them to 1.24, now I see that the repository with versions older than 1.24 is removed. Can I skip the 1.23 version?

[root@master-node ~]# kubeadm upgrade plan v1.24.0
[upgrade/config] Making sure the configuration is correct:
[upgrade/config] Reading configuration from the cluster…
[upgrade/config] FYI: You can look at this config file with ‘kubectl -n kube-system get cm kubeadm-config -o yaml’
[upgrade/config] FATAL: this version of kubeadm only supports deploying clusters with the control plane version >= 1.23.0. Current version: v1.22.0
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

According to this skew policy it says one minor version between the controller, scheduler and the api server.

kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler, and cloud-controller-manager

kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler, and cloud-controller-manager must not be newer than the kube-apiserver instances they communicate with. They are expected to match the kube-apiserver minor version, but may be up to one minor version older (to allow live upgrades).

Can someone give me advice how to upgrade this clusters?

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Hi,
AFAIK you can upgrade kube-proxy and kubelet to +2 version. However you cannot perform desired upgrade flow. You need to upgrade to 1.23 first.

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Is there a way I can upgrade to 1.23, as I now this version is removed from the repository?

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you can still upgrade, all the binaries are available- just the legacy packages are gone. see the instructions on installing without a package manager: