Upgrading operators by using the OpenShift web console

Upgrade operators using the OpenShift web console. To upgrade using the CLI, see Upgrading operators using the CLI.

You must be an OpenShift cluster administrator to upgrade operators. For more information, see OpenShift roles and permissions.

Procedure

Upgrading between major release versions of Cloud Pak for Integration requires a change of operator channel, which is always a manual step for the user. To confirm what channel you need to change to, see Operator and instance versions for this release.

To upgrade an operator channel:

  1. Log in to the OpenShift web console.

  2. Click Operators > Installed Operators.

  3. Click to expand Project and select the namespace in which you installed the Cloud Pak for Integration operators. For All namespaces on the cluster mode, this must be openshift-operators.

  4. Select the operator to upgrade by clicking the name of the operator.

  5. Click the Subscription tab, then click the edit option (pencil icon) under Update channel.

  6. For the channel, select the appropriate value for 16.2.0. You can upgrade directly to the 16.2.0 channels; there is no need to go through each intermediate channel. To get the available operator channel versions for this release, see Operator and instance versions for this release.
    Attention: When the IBM Event Streams operator is upgraded, all Kafka clusters managed by this operator are upgraded automatically.

  7. Click Save. The Upgrade status should change to upgrading. The upgrade status is Upgrading

  8. Click Installed Operators again. At this point, there may be two versions listed. This is expected. The older version will eventually be removed. The old operator has a "cannot update" status, the new operator has an "installing" status.

Once all the operators being used are upgraded, you can upgrade the instances.