Chapter 1. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 upgrades


1.1. Ansible Automation Platform upgrades

Currently, it is possible to perform Ansible Automation Platform upgrades using one of the following supported upgrade paths.

Important

Upgrade from Event-Driven Ansible 2.5 to 2.6 is supported; however, upgrade from Event-Driven Ansible 2.4 to 2.6 is not supported. If you are upgrading from Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 to 2.6 and you have deployed Event-Driven Ansible, you must first remove the Event-Driven Ansible 2.4 database and then upgrade your platform to 2.6. For information about the procedure, see Removing Event-Driven Ansible 2.4 database.

Before beginning your upgrade be sure to review the prerequisites and upgrade planning sections of this guide.

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Supported upgrade path

Steps to upgrade

Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 to 2.6

  1. Back up your Ansible Automation Platform instance.
  2. Download the installation package.
  3. Set up your inventory file to match your installation environment. See Tested deployment models for a list of example inventory files.
  4. Remove Event-Driven Ansible 2.4 database, if you deployed Event-Driven Ansible.
  5. Run the 2.6 installation program over your current Ansible Automation Platform instance.

Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 to 2.6

  1. Back up your Ansible Automation Platform instance.
  2. Download the installation package.
  3. Set up your inventory file to match your installation environment. See Tested deployment models for a list of example inventory files.
  4. Run the 2.6 installation program over your current Ansible Automation Platform instance.

Automation controller and automation hub 2.4 and Event-Driven Ansible 2.6 with unified UI upgrades

Upgrade the 2.4 services (using inventory file to only specify automation controller and automation hub VMs) to get them to the initial version of Ansible Automation Platform 2.6.

After all the services are at the same version, run a 2.6 upgrade on all the services.

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