Preparing and applying upgraded custom resource

Upgrade IBM RPA on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform to the most recent version.

Before you begin

Refer Versioning reference for available versions options.

Procedure

In the OpenShift Console, go to Operators > Installed Operators and click IBM Robotic Process Automation.
On the Robotic Process Automation tab, click the RPA Instance.

On the YAML tab, set the replicas fields to 0 in the IBM RPA CR.

apiVersion: rpa.automation.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: RoboticProcessAutomation
metadata:
name: rpa-sample
spec:
license:
    accept: true
version: 1.6.0
tls: {}
api:
    externalConnection:
    secretName: rpa-db
    firstTenant:
    groupMappings:
        adminGroups: IBM Development
        superAdminsGroups: IBM Manager
        userGroups: IBM User
    name: ibm
    owner:
        email: superuser@example.com
        name: superuser
    replicas: 0
    smtp:
    port: 587
    server: smtp.example.com
    userSecret:
        secretName: rpa-smtp
    storage: {}
ui:
    replicas: 0
ocr:
    replicas: 0
antivirus:
    replicas: 0

Click Save once you've made your changes.

Wait for the ready condition to appear in the status section of the IBM RPA CR:

status:
conditions:
- lastTransitionTime: '2021-11-30T15:23:36Z'
    message: RPA successfully installed
    reason: Installed
    status: 'True'
    type: Ready

Edit the YAML file again and change the spec.version field to the version number of IBM RPA you want to install. Click Save. Refer available versions at Versioning reference.

Wait for the ready condition to appear in the status section of the IBM RPA CR:

status:
conditions:
- lastTransitionTime: '2021-11-30T15:23:36Z'
    message: RPA successfully installed
    reason: Installed
    status: 'True'
    type: Ready

Edit the YAML file again and restore the replicas to their previous value.