Chapter 5. Upgrading a geo-replication deployment of Red Hat Quay on OpenShift Container Platform
Use the following procedure to upgrade your geo-replicated Red Hat Quay on OpenShift Container Platform deployment.
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When upgrading geo-replicated Red Hat Quay on OpenShift Container Platform deployment to the next y-stream release (for example, Red Hat Quay 3.7
Red Hat Quay 3.8), you must stop operations before upgrading. - There is intermittent downtime down upgrading from one y-stream release to the next.
- It is highly recommended to back up your Red Hat Quay on OpenShift Container Platform deployment before upgrading.
This procedure assumes that you are running the Red Hat Quay registry on three or more systems. For this procedure, we will assume three systems named System A, System B, and System C. System A will serve as the primary system in which the Red Hat Quay Operator is deployed.
On System B and System C, scale down your Red Hat Quay registry. This is done by disabling auto scaling and overriding the replica county for Red Hat Quay, mirror workers, and Clair if it is managed. Use the following
quayregistry.yamlfile as a reference:apiVersion: quay.redhat.com/v1 kind: QuayRegistry metadata: name: registry namespace: ns spec: components: … - kind: horizontalpodautoscaler managed: false 1 - kind: quay managed: true overrides: 2 replicas: 0 - kind: clair managed: true overrides: replicas: 0 - kind: mirror managed: true overrides: replicas: 0 …NoteYou must keep the Red Hat Quay registry running on System A. Do not update the
quayregistry.yamlfile on System A.Wait for the
registry-quay-app,registry-quay-mirror, andregistry-clair-apppods to disappear. Enter the following command to check their status:oc get pods -n <quay-namespace>
Example output
quay-operator.v3.7.1-6f9d859bd-p5ftc 1/1 Running 0 12m quayregistry-clair-postgres-7487f5bd86-xnxpr 1/1 Running 1 (12m ago) 12m quayregistry-quay-app-upgrade-xq2v6 0/1 Completed 0 12m quayregistry-quay-redis-84f888776f-hhgms 1/1 Running 0 12m
- On System A, initiate a Red Hat Quay upgrade to the latest y-stream version. This is a manual process. For more information about upgrading installed Operators, see Upgrading installed Operators. For more information about Red Hat Quay upgrade paths, see Upgrading the Red Hat Quay Operator.
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After the new Red Hat Quay registry is installed, the necessary upgrades on the cluster are automatically completed. Afterwards, new Red Hat Quay pods are started with the latest y-stream version. Additionally, new
Quaypods are scheduled and started. Confirm that the update has properly worked by navigating to the Red Hat Quay UI:
In the OpenShift console, navigate to Operators
Installed Operators, and click the Registry Endpoint link. ImportantDo not execute the following step until the Red Hat Quay UI is available. Do not upgrade the Red Hat Quay registry on System B and on System C until the UI is available on System A.
Confirm that the update has properly worked on System A, initiate the Red Hat Quay upgrade on System B and on System C. The Operator upgrade results in an upgraded Red Hat Quay installation, and the pods are restarted.
NoteBecause the database schema is correct for the new y-stream installation, the new pods on System B and on System C should quickly start.
After updating, revert the changes made in step 1 of this procedure by removing
overridesfor the components. For example:apiVersion: quay.redhat.com/v1 kind: QuayRegistry metadata: name: registry namespace: ns spec: components: … - kind: horizontalpodautoscaler managed: true 1 - kind: quay managed: true - kind: clair managed: true - kind: mirror managed: true …- 1
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horizontalpodautoscalerresource was set totruebefore the upgrade procedure, or if you want Red Hat Quay to scale in case of a resource shortage, set it totrue.
