Chapter 34. Working with Versions
Versioning provides the means for safely rolling out upgrades of the profiles deployed and running in containers across a fabric. Using versioning, you can make incremental updates to existing profiles, and then test them out on small groups of containers. When you've completed and tested the final versions, you can confidently deploy them to their target containers in the fabric.
34.1. Creating a new version of a profile
Overview
A version is simply the collection of all profiles associated with a fabric. When you create a new version, you are copying all of the profiles from the most recent version—the base version—into the new version. Once that's done, you can upgrade the profiles in the new version by modifying them.
Creating a new version
To create a new version:
- In Fabric Explorer, select the fabric in which you want to create a new version.
- Expand the fabric's tree to the level of Versions, shown in Section 33.1, “Creating a new profile”.
- Select Versions, and then right-click it to open the context menu.
- Select .
- In the Create Version wizard, enter a new version or accept the default value.The default version is always a minor increment of the highest-numbered version. So, if the highest-numbered version is 1.3, the new version will default to 1.4, and all of the profiles in version 1.3 will be copied into version 1.4.ImportantVersion names are important! The tooling sorts version names based on the numeric version string, according to major.minor numbering, to determine the version on which to base a new one. You can safely add a text description to a version name as long as you append it to the end of the generated default name like this:
1.3<.description>. If you abandon the default naming convention and use a textual name instead (for example,Patch051312), the next version you create will be based, not on the last version (Patch051312), but on the highest-numbered version determined by dot syntax. - Click .The tooling copies all of the base version's profiles into the new version and displays the new version in Fabric Explorer, directly under the base version.
Modifying profiles in the new version
To modify a profile in the new version:
- In Fabric Explorer, expand the newly created version.
- Select a profile that you want to modify.The tooling populates the Properties editor with the profile's details for you to edit.
- In the Properties editor, click the Details tab to access the Profiles page.
- Make the changes you want to the new profile to configure it.Changes are automatically saved as you make them.
Related topics
| Section 33.1, “Creating a new profile” |
