Upgrading IBM Watson Pipelines from Version 4.6.x to a later 4.6 refresh

A project administrator can upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines from one Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6 refresh to a later 4.6 refresh.

What permissions do you need to complete this task?
The permissions that you need depend on which tasks you must complete:
  • To update the IBM Watson Pipelines operators, you must have the appropriate permissions to create operators and you must be an administrator of the project where the Cloud Pak for Data operators are installed. This project is identified by the ${PROJECT_CPD_OPS} environment variable.
  • To upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines, you must be an administrator of the project where IBM Watson Pipelines is installed. This project is identified by the ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE} environment variable.
When do you need to complete this task?
If you didn't upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines when you upgraded the platform, you can complete this task to upgrade your existing IBM Watson Pipelines installation.

If you want to upgrade all of the Cloud Pak for Data components at the same time, follow the process in Upgrading the platform and services instead.

Important: All of the Cloud Pak for Data components in a deployment must be installed at the same release.

Information you need to complete this task

Review the following information before you upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines:

Environment variables
The commands in this task use environment variables so that you can run the commands exactly as written.
  • If you don't have the script that defines the environment variables, see Setting up installation environment variables.
  • To use the environment variables from the script, you must source the environment variables before you run the commands in this task, for example:
    source ./cpd_vars.sh
Installation location
IBM Watson Pipelines is installed in the same project (namespace) as the Cloud Pak for Data control plane. This project is identified by the ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE} environment variable.
Common core services
IBM Watson Pipelines requires the Cloud Pak for Data common core services.

If the common core services are not at the required version for the release, the common core services will be automatically upgraded when you upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines. This increases the amount of time the upgrade takes to complete.

Storage requirements
You don't need to specify storage when you upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines.

Before you begin

This task assumes that the following prerequisites are met:

Prerequisite Where to find more information
The cluster meets the minimum requirements for IBM Watson Pipelines. If this task is not complete, see System requirements.
The workstation from which you will run the upgrade is set up as a client workstation and the cpd-cli has the latest version of the olm-utils-play image. If this task is not complete, see Updating client workstations.
The Cloud Pak for Data control plane is upgraded. If this task is not complete, see Upgrading the platform and services.
For environments that use a private container registry, such as air-gapped environments, the IBM Watson Pipelines software images are mirrored to the private container registry. If this task is not complete, see Mirroring images to a private container registry.

Procedure

Complete the following tasks to upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines:

  1. Logging in to the cluster
  2. Updating the operator
  3. Upgrading the service
  4. Validating the upgrade
  5. What to do next

Logging in to the cluster

To run cpd-cli manage commands, you must log in to the cluster.

To log in to the cluster:

  1. Run the cpd-cli manage login-to-ocp command to log in to the cluster as a user with sufficient permissions to complete this task. For example:
    cpd-cli manage login-to-ocp \
--username=${OCP_USERNAME} \
--password=${OCP_PASSWORD} \
--server=${OCP_URL}
    Tip: The login-to-ocp command takes the same input as the oc login command. Run oc login --help for details.

Updating the operator

The IBM Watson Pipelines operator simplifies the process of managing the IBM Watson Pipelines service on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.

To upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines, ensure that all of the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) objects in the ${PROJECT_CPD_OPS} project, such as the catalog sources and subscriptions, are upgraded to the appropriate release. All of the OLM objects must be at the same release.

Who needs to complete this task?
You must be a cluster administrator (or a user with the appropriate permissions to install operators) to create the OLM objects.
When do you need to complete this task?
Complete this task only if the OLM artifacts have not been updated for the current release using the cpd-cli manage apply-olm command with the --upgrade=true option.

It is not necessary to run this command multiple times for each service that you plan to upgrade. If you complete this task and the OLM artifacts already exist on the cluster, the cpd-cli will recreate the OLM objects for all of the existing components in the ${PROJECT_CPD_OPS} project.

To update the operator:

  1. Update the OLM objects:
    cpd-cli manage apply-olm \
--release=${VERSION} \
--cpd_operator_ns=${PROJECT_CPD_OPS} \
--upgrade=true
    • If the command succeeds, it returns [SUCCESS]... The apply-olm command ran successfully.
    • If the command fails, it returns [ERROR] and includes information about the cause of the failure.

What to do next: Upgrade the IBM Watson Pipelines service.

Upgrading the service

After the IBM Watson Pipelines operator is updated, you can upgrade IBM Watson Pipelines.

Who needs to complete this task?
You must be an administrator of the project where IBM Watson Pipelines is installed.
When do you need to complete this task?
Complete this task for each instance of IBM Watson Pipelines that is associated with an instance of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.

To upgrade the service:

  1. Update the custom resource for IBM Watson Pipelines.
    cpd-cli manage apply-cr \
--components=ws_pipelines \
--release=${VERSION} \
--cpd_instance_ns=${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE} \
--license_acceptance=true \
--upgrade=true

Validating the upgrade

IBM Watson Pipelines is upgraded when the apply-cr command returns [SUCCESS]... The apply-cr command ran successfully.

However, you can optionally run the cpd-cli manage get-cr-status command if you want to confirm that the custom resource status is Completed:

cpd-cli manage get-cr-status \
--cpd_instance_ns=${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE} \
--components=ws_pipelines

What to do next

IBM Watson Pipelines is ready to use. To get started with IBM Watson Pipelines, see IBM Watson Pipelines.