Upgrading with Axual Helm Charts

Changes in version 2024.4

General prerequisites

Before you upgrade to 2024.4, please make sure:

  • you are performing the deployment with any of the following Axual Helm Chart 2024.3 versions

    • Axual Helm Charts 0.19.0 …​ 0.19.2

  • you are running kubernetes version 1.24.x or later

  • you are not overriding any components' versions (search for tag: overrides in your values.yaml)

Performing the upgrade

Start from Axual Platform 2024.3 installed using Axual Helm Charts 0.19.0 …​ 0.19.2.

Use the general upgrade steps for upgrading best-practice.

Upgrade Axual Platform to 0.20.0

  1. Update the Axual helm repository to download the latest charts available

    helm repo update

  2. Upgrade the Axual Platform installation

    helm upgrade --install platform axual-stable/platform --version=0.20.0 -n kafka

This command will restart all platform pods.

Verify the upgrade by checking the pods and their images:

  • [tenantShortName]-[instanceShortName]-rest-proxy pod uses image: docker.axual.io/axual/rest-proxy:1.10.5

  • [clusterShortName]-clusterbrowse pod uses image: docker.axual.io/axual/cluster-browse:1.6.7

  • selfservice-api pod uses image: docker.axual.io/axual-api:9.1.0

  • selfservice-ui pod uses image: docker.axual.io/axual/axual-frontend:10.2.0

Once restarted, verify everything is running fine before considering the upgrade done.