Upgrading your Self-Hosted Standard Edition

Upgrade the Standard Edition and stanctl tool.

Upgrading the stanctl tool

Complete the steps in the section that is applicable to your environment.

Online environment

If your Instana host has access to the internet, complete the steps in Installing stanctl command-line tool to upgrade stanctl.

Air-gapped environment

Complete the following steps on your bastion host:

  1. Upgrade stanctl by completing the steps in Installing stanctl command-line tool.

  2. Create the air-gapped installation package.

Then, to upgrade stanctl and to import the new air-gapped package on the Instana host that is in the air-gapped environment, complete the steps in Transferring the air-gapped installation package.

Upgrading your Standard Edition backend

First, complete the steps in Upgrading the stanctl tool that are applicable to your environment.

Then, upgrade the backend.

  1. Running the following command on the Instana host.

    stanctl up

    The command output includes all the available updates. See the following example output:

    root@vm-node1:~# stanctl up
? The following updates are available:

Clickhouse Image: artifact-public.instana.io/clickhouse-openssl:23.8.10.43-1-lts-ibm
Instana Agent Chart Version: 1.2.71
Instana Enterprise operator Image: artifact-public.instana.io/infrastructure/instana-operator:267-1
Instana Enterprise operator Version: 267.1.0

  [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
  Proceed with installing the updates
  Proceed without installing the updates
> Cancel

    If you run the stanctl up -q command, updates for components are applied automatically, skip step 2.

  2. Select Proceed with installing the updates to upgrade the backend.

    You see the ⠇ Setting up the Kubernetes cluster [7s] message. After the cluster is set up, the upgrade is complete.