Upgrading IBM Cloud Pak for Data (Upgrading from Version 4.8.x to a later 4.8 refresh)
After you upgrade the IBM Cloud Pak foundational services for the instance, you can upgrade the IBM Cloud Pak for Data control plane and services.
- Upgrade phase
- Updating your client workstation
- Who needs to complete this task?
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Instance administrator An instance administrator can complete this task.
- When do you need to complete this task?
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Repeat as needed If you have multiple instances of Cloud Pak for Data on the cluster, this task for each instance that you want to upgrade.
Before you begin
In addition, ensure that you source the environment variables before you run the commands in this task.
About this task
- Upgrade the Cloud Pak for Data control plane before you upgrade the services in the instance
- Upgrade the Cloud Pak for Data control plane and the services at the same time.
When you run the cpd-cli
manage
apply-olm
command, all of the operators in the instance are
upgraded to the same version.
Procedure
What to do next
If you use the cpdbr
service to back up Cloud Pak for Data, see Updating the cpdbr service (Upgrading from Version 4.8.x to a later 4.8 refresh).
If you don't use the cpdbr
service to back up Cloud Pak for Data, your next steps depend on which components you
upgraded:
- Cloud Pak for Data control plane and services
- If you upgraded the Cloud Pak for Data control plane and the services in the instance, see Setting up services after install or upgrade.
- Cloud Pak for Data control plane only
- If you upgraded only the Cloud Pak for Data control plane, you must upgrade the services in the instance. For more information, see Services.