Installing or rolling back to a specific Operator version

To install or roll back to a specific Operator version, update the catalog source, uninstall the existing Operator, and then install a new version of the Operator.

Note: Rolling back to a specific version is supported only in fresh mode of setup. Rolling back is not supported in upgrade mode.

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. Switch to <sip_installation_namespce> and delete the SIPEnvironment custom resource.
  2. Ensure to delete any independent service groups that are defined outside of the SIPEnvironment custom resource. For example, IVServiceGroup, PromisingServiceGroup, UtilityServiceGroup, or OptimizerServiceGroup.
  3. Verify that no pods of Sterling Intelligent Promising run in <sip_installation_namespace>.
  4. Clear the Persistent Volume if you have enabled the data persistence for middleware instances.
  5. Ensure that you clear the data from middleware instances, if they are external.
  6. Uninstall the existing IBM® OMS Gateway Operator and IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Operator. For more information, see Uninstalling IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Operator.
  7. Specify the Operator version that you wish to install by using either command-line interface or web console methods. For more information, see Installing the Operators by using command-line interface (CLI) and Installing the Operators by using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console.