Offline upgrade of Infrastructure Automation

Before you begin

• Ensure that you are logged in to your Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform cluster with oc login for any steps that use the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform command-line interface (CLI).
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform requires a user with cluster-admin privileges for the following operations:
  • Mirror images
  • Update the catalog
  • Update the operator subscription
• Ensure that your cluster meets all of the prerequisites for deployment. For more information, see Planning

Restrictions

• There are restrictions on which releases you can upgrade from. For more information, see Upgrade paths.
• The upgrade cannot be removed or rolled back.

Upgrade procedure

Follow these steps to upgrade your offline Infrastructure Automation deployment.

1. Verify prerequisites
2. Download CASE files
3. Mirror images
4. Update the catalog
5. Update the operator subscription
6. Verify the deployment
7. Post upgrade actions

1. Verify prerequisites

1. Ensure that your cluster still meets all the prerequisites for an air-gapped deployment.

   Review the steps for your installation approach:

   • Bastion host
   • Portable device

2. Ensure that the IBM Catalog Management Plug-in for IBM Cloud Pak® (ibm-pak-plugin) is at the required level.

   Important: ibm-pak-plugin v1.9 and lower cannot process the Infrastructure Automation 4.8.0 catalog. You must ensure that you have ibm-pak-plugin v1.10 or higher installed.

   1. Check which version of ibm-pak-plugin you have installed.

      Run the following command on your bastion host, portable compute device, or connected compute device if you are using a portable storage device.

      oc ibm-pak --version
      

      Example output:

      oc ibm-pak --version
      v1.13.0
      

      
      

   2. If the ibm-pak-plugin version is lower than v1.10.0, then you must download and install the most recent version.

      Follow the steps for your installation approach:

      • Bastion host: Install the IBM Catalog Management Plug-in for IBM Cloud Pak®.
      • Portable device: Install the IBM Catalog Management Plug-in for IBM Cloud Pak®.

3. Run the following command to set the environment variable that you need for upgrade.

   export PROJECT_IA=<project>
   

   Where <project> is the namespace (project) that Infrastructure Automation is deployed in.

2. Download CASE files

On your OpenShift cluster, rerun step 2 of the air-gap installation procedure Set environment variables and download CASE files to download the latest CASE files.

Follow the steps for your installation approach:

• Bastion host
• Portable device

Note: If you have an offline cache from a previous installation, you have two options to ensure that the latest CASEs are saved when you are using a case save command. You must:

• Delete the existing CASE .tgz files from your offline cache.
• Run a case save by using a different offline cache directory, and then copy the contents of that new directory into your existing offline cache.

Once you have the latest files in your offline cache, you can continue the airgap process using the offline cache directory.

3. Mirror images

Rerun step 3 of the air-gap installation procedure to mirror the updated images to the offline registry. Follow the steps for your installation approach:

• Bastion host: 3 Mirror images to your final location
• Portable device: 3 Mirror images

4. Update the catalog

Rerun step 5.1 or 5.2 of the air-gap installation procedure to update your catalog source.

Follow the steps for your installation approach:

• Bastion host: 5.2 Create the catalog source
• Portable device: 5.1 Create the catalog source

5. Update the operator subscription

Update the spec.channel value of the Infrastructure Automation operator to the release that you want to upgrade to, v4.8.

oc patch sub ibm-infrastructure-automation-operator -n ${PROJECT_IA} --type=json -p='[{'op': 'replace', 'path': '/spec/channel', 'value': 'v4.8'}]'

Important: You must only update the Infrastructure Automation subscription. You must not update the Infrastructure Management or Managed Services subscriptions (ibm-management-im-install and ibm-management-cam-install).

6. Verify the deployment

oc get iaconfigs -n ${PROJECT_IA}

NAME               PHASE        VERSION   STORAGECLASS   STORAGECLASSLARGEBLOCK   AGE
ibm-ia-installer   Running      4.8.0     rook-cephfs    rook-ceph-block          8m44s

oc get csv | grep -E "ibm-infrastructure-automation-operator|VERSION"

NAME                                           DISPLAY                        VERSION  REPLACES                                       PHASE
ibm-infrastructure-automation-operator.v4.8.0  IBM Infrastructure Automation  4.8.0    ibm-infrastructure-automation-operator.v4.7.1  Succeeded

oc get iaconfigs.aiops.ibm.com -A

NAME               PHASE        VERSION   STORAGECLASS   STORAGECLASSLARGEBLOCK   AGE
ibm-ia-installer   Running      4.8.0     rook-cephfs    rook-ceph-block          8m44s

7. Post upgrade actions

1. Clear your browser cache. Failure to do so will result in the error 502 Bad Gateway when viewing the Library, Instances, and Manage pages.

2. If you previously setup backup or restore on your deployment, then you must follow the instructions in Upgrading Infrastructure Automation backup and restore artifacts.