Performing the upgrade using Helm charts

Typical upgrade steps

A lot of the upgrade steps can be performed without impact on your users. Basically, the deployment or upgrade of components is split in two actions:

Configuration changes, such as added or changed configuration parameters, including the new component’s version
Deployment of the upgraded component, using the helm upgrade command.

Axual Platform 2024.1 is installed using Axual helm charts version 0.17.11 or previous supported versions.

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

Upgrade Axual Platform

helm upgrade --install platform axual-stable/platform --version=0.18.1 -n kafka

This command will restart the all axual-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:1.9.3
selfservice-aom pod uses image: docker.axual.io/axual/operation-manager:1.5.5
selfservice-api pod uses image: docker.axual.io/axual-api:8.6.0
selfservice-ui pod uses image: docker.axual.io/axual/axual-frontend:9.6.2

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

No other steps are required to upgrade or configure the platform components.

You can read through the release blog to find out what has changed since the last release and forward it to your colleagues.