Determine your upgrade path

Use these reference tables to find the supported upgrade paths for your Ansible Automation Platform deployment.

Review Red Hat Enterprise Linux version compatibility and supported processes for containerized and OpenShift Container Platform deployment types.

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In-place upgrades of major Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are not supported. You must migrate your existing deployment of Ansible Automation Platform to a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.

Supported RHEL versions by deployment type
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Supported RHEL versions differ among deployment types, as shown in the following table.

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Deployment type and version Supported RHEL version

Containerized 2.7

RHEL 9.6 or later minor versions of RHEL 9, RHEL 10 or later minor versions of RHEL 10

Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on OpenShift Container Platform

For RHEL versions included with OpenShift Container Platform, see Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy.

Container-based upgrade scenarios
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Find the supported upgrade paths for your container-based Ansible Automation Platform deployment.

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on RHEL 9

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Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on RHEL 9

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on RHEL 9
  1. Upgrade your container deployment from 2.6 to 2.7.

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on RHEL 9

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on RHEL 10
  1. Upgrade your container deployment from 2.6 to 2.7.
  2. Back up your deployment of container 2.7 on RHEL 9, then restore to a RHEL 10 environment running a fresh container installation 2.7.

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on RHEL 9

Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on OpenShift Container Platform
  1. Upgrade your container deployment from 2.6 to 2.7.
  2. Migration process overview 2.7 to Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift Container Platform.

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on RHEL 10

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Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on RHEL 10

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on RHEL 10
  1. Upgrade your container deployment from 2.6 to 2.7.

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on RHEL 10

Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on OpenShift Container Platform
  1. Upgrade your container deployment from 2.6 to 2.7.
  2. Migration process overview 2.7 to Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift Container Platform.

OpenShift Container Platform upgrade scenarios
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Find the supported upgrade paths for Ansible Automation Platform deployments that use OpenShift Container Platform.

Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on OpenShift Container Platform

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Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 on OpenShift Container Platform

Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on OpenShift Container Platform
  1. Upgrade your OpenShift Container Platform deployment from 2.6 to 2.7.