Upgrading with Streaming and Governance Charts

Changes in version 2025.1

Read the Release Blog
Check the Axual 2025.1 Release Notes for more details

General prerequisites

Before you upgrade to 2025.1, please make sure:

You are performing the deployment with any of the following Axual Streaming 2024.4 versions
- Axual Streaming Charts 1.1.x series
You are performing the deployment with any of the following Axual Governance 2024.4 versions
- Axual Governance Charts 0.6.x series
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)

You can upgrade each part of the Axual Platform independently, we suggest starting from the Streaming and then move to the Governance.

Performing the upgrade

Use the general upgrade steps for upgrading best-practice.

Axual Streaming Charts

Please note that to upgrade to the 1.2.x version, a version of the Strimzi Operator that supports Kafka 3.9.0 version must be running; otherwise you need to override the Kafka version to your running version.

You can check compatibility on the Strimzi supported versions page.

Start from Axual Streaming 2024.4 installed using Axual Streaming Charts of the 1.1.x series.

Update the Axual helm repository to download the latest charts available
```
helm repo update
```

Upgrade the Axual Streaming installation

helm upgrade --install streaming axual-stable/axual-streaming --version=1.2.0 -n kafka

This command will restart all streaming pods.

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

Axual Governance Charts

Start from Axual Governance 2024.4 installed using Axual Governance Charts of the 0.6.x.

In the 2025.1 version, we have introduced the Auditing Feature which requires extra configuration to be provided to the Platform Manager and Platform UI.

Update the Axual helm repository to download the latest charts available
```
helm repo update
```

To enable the Auditing feature to track the performed actions, enable the Auditing Feature in the values.yaml for the Platform-Manager and Platform-UI as shown below:

platform-manager:
   config:
    axual:
      # Auditing Feature
      audit:
         enabled: true

platform-ui:
  config:
    # Auditing Feature
    auditHistoryEnabled: true

Upgrade the Axual Governance installation

helm upgrade --install governance axual-stable/axual-governance --version=1.0.3 -n kafka

This command will restart all governance pods.

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