diff --git a/daprdocs/content/en/operations/hosting/kubernetes/kubernetes-upgrade.md b/daprdocs/content/en/operations/hosting/kubernetes/kubernetes-upgrade.md
index 6f8d0fd99..2e44e4e55 100644
--- a/daprdocs/content/en/operations/hosting/kubernetes/kubernetes-upgrade.md
+++ b/daprdocs/content/en/operations/hosting/kubernetes/kubernetes-upgrade.md
@@ -25,6 +25,26 @@ The example below shows how to upgrade to version 1.1.0:
 You can provide all the available Helm chart configurations using the Dapr CLI.
 See [here](https://github.com/dapr/cli#supplying-helm-values) for more info.
 
+#### Troubleshooting upgrade using the CLI
+
+There is a known issue running upgrades on clusters that may have previously had a version prior to 1.0.0-rc.2 installed on a cluster.
+
+Most users should not encounter this issue, but there are a few upgrade path edge cases that may leave an incompatible CustomResourceDefinition installed on your cluster. The error message for this case looks like this:
+
+```
+❌  Failed to upgrade Dapr: Warning: kubectl apply should be used on resource created by either kubectl create --save-config or kubectl apply
+The CustomResourceDefinition "configurations.dapr.io" is invalid: spec.preserveUnknownFields: Invalid value: true: must be false in order to use defaults in the schema
+
+```
+
+To resolve this issue please run the follow command to upgrade the CustomResourceDefinition to a compatible version:
+
+```
+kubectl replace -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/dapr/5a15b3e0f093d2d0938b12f144c7047474a290fe/charts/dapr/crds/configuration.yaml
+```
+
+Then proceed with the `dapr upgrade --runtime-version 1.1.0 -k` command as above.
+
 ### Helm
 
 From version 1.0.0 onwards, upgrading Dapr using Helm is no longer a disruptive action since existing certificate values will automatically be re-used.
@@ -64,4 +84,4 @@ From version 1.0.0 onwards, upgrading Dapr using Helm is no longer a disruptive
 ## Next steps
 
 - [Dapr on Kubernetes]({{< ref kubernetes-overview.md >}})
-- [Dapr production guidelines]({{< ref kubernetes-production.md >}})
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+- [Dapr production guidelines]({{< ref kubernetes-production.md >}})