Upgrade Palette VerteX Installed with Kubernetes

This guide takes you through the process of upgrading a self-hosted Palette VerteX instance installed with Helm on Kubernetes.

warning

Before upgrading Palette VerteX to a new major version, you must first update it to the latest minor version available. Refer to the Supported Upgrade Paths section for details.

If your setup includes a PCG, you must also allow the PCG to upgrade automatically before each major or minor Palette VerteX upgrade.

Prerequisites

kubectl and helm available in your system.
Access to the kubeconfig file of the target Kubernetes cluster. You must be able to interact with the cluster through kubectl and have sufficient permissions to upgrade Palette VerteX. We recommend using a role with the cluster-admin permissions.
unzip or a similar tool available in your system.
Access to the latest Palette VerteX Helm Chart. Refer to Access Palette VerteX for more details.

Upgrade

info

Depending on your underlying infrastructure provider and Kubernetes distribution, you may need to modify these steps to match your environment.

Open a terminal session and navigate to the directory with the Palette VerteX installation zip file. Unzip the file to a palette-install directory.
```
unzip release-*.zip -d palette-install
```
Navigate to the release directory inside palette-install.
```
cd palette-install/charts/release-*
```

Update the cert-manager chart using the following command.

helm upgrade --values extras/cert-manager/values.yaml \
cert-manager extras/cert-manager/cert-manager-*.tgz --install

You should receive an output similar to the following.

Release "cert-manager" has been upgraded. Happy Helming!
NAME: cert-manager
LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Feb 22 19:42:33 2024
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 2
TEST SUITE: None

Prepare the Palette VerteX configuration file values.yaml. If you saved values.yaml used during the Palette VerteX installation, you can reuse it for the upgrade. Alternatively, follow the Kubernetes Installation Instructions to populate your values.yaml.

warning
Ensure that the values.yaml file is ready before proceeding. If you're using a self-hosted OCI registry, make sure that the ociImageRegistry.mirrorRegistries parameter in your values.yaml includes the necessary mirror links.

If you are using a self-hosted OCI registry, upgrade the image-swap chart with the following command. Point to the palette/values.yaml file from step four.

helm upgrade --values palette/values.yaml \
image-swap extras/image-swap/image-swap-*.tgz --install

You should receive an output similar to the following.

Release "image-swap" has been upgraded. Happy Helming!
NAME: image-swap
LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Feb 22 19:44:13 2024
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 2
TEST SUITE: None

If you are upgrading a Palette VerteX instance in an environment that requires network proxy configuration, upgrade the reach-system chart with the following command. Point to the palette/values.yaml file from step four.

helm upgrade --values palette/values.yaml \
reach-system extras/reach-system/reach-system-\*.tgz --install

You should receive an output similar to the following.

Release "reach-system" has been upgraded. Happy Helming!
NAME: reach-system
LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Feb 22 19:47:10 2024
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 2
TEST SUITE: None

Upgrade Palette VerteX with the following command.

helm upgrade --values palette/values.yaml \
hubble palette/spectro-mgmt-plane-\*.tgz --install

You should receive an output similar to the following.

Release "hubble" has been upgraded. Happy Helming!
NAME: hubble
LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Feb 22 20:05:24 2024
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 2
TEST SUITE: None

Use the following command to track the upgrade process.
```
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces --watch
```
tip
For a more user-friendly experience, consider using K9s or a similar tool to track the upgrade.

The upgrade usually takes up to five minutes. Palette VerteX is upgraded when the deployments in the namespaces cp-system, hubble-system, ingress-nginx, jet-system , and ui-system are in the Ready status.

Validate

In your terminal, issue the following command.

helm ls

You should receive an output with the version and other details of the currently deployed apps. Check the App Version column of cert-manager, image-swap, reach-system, and hubble to verify that they have the expected versions.

NAME        	NAMESPACE	REVISION	UPDATED                             	STATUS  	CHART                   	APP VERSION
cert-manager	default  	2       	2024-02-22 19:42:33.776829 +0100 CET	deployed	cert-manager-1.11.0     	1.11.0
image-swap  	default  	2       	2024-02-22 19:44:13.209592 +0100 CET	deployed	image-swap-v1.5.2-spectro-4.1.1	1.5.2
reach-system	default  	2       	2024-02-22 19:47:10.558061 +0100 CET	deployed	reach-system-4.2.0             	4.2.0
hubble      	default  	2       	2024-02-22 19:47:24.085305 +0100 CET	deployed	spectro-mgmt-plane-4.2.7	4.2.7

Issue the following command to verify that the Palette VerteX clusters work as expected.

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces --output custom-columns="NAMESPACE:metadata.namespace,NAME:metadata.name,STATUS:status.phase" \
| grep -E '^(cp-system|hubble-system|ingress-nginx|jet-system|ui-system)\s'

The command should return a list of deployments in the cp-system, hubble-system, ingress-nginx, jet-system, and ui-system namespaces. All deployments should have the status Running.

cp-system       spectro-cp-ui-689984f88d-54wsw             Running
hubble-system   auth-85b748cbf4-6drkn                      Running
hubble-system   auth-85b748cbf4-dwhw2                      Running
hubble-system   cloud-fb74b8558-lqjq5                      Running
hubble-system   cloud-fb74b8558-zkfp5                      Running
hubble-system   configserver-685fcc5b6d-t8f8h              Running
hubble-system   event-68568f54c7-jzx5t                     Running
hubble-system   event-68568f54c7-w9rnh                     Running
hubble-system   foreq-6b689f54fb-vxjts                     Running
hubble-system   hashboard-897bc9884-pxpvn                  Running
hubble-system   hashboard-897bc9884-rmn69                  Running
hubble-system   hutil-6d7c478c96-td8q4                     Running
hubble-system   hutil-6d7c478c96-zjhk4                     Running
hubble-system   mgmt-85dbf6bf9c-jbggc                      Running
hubble-system   mongo-0                                    Running
hubble-system   mongo-1                                    Running
hubble-system   mongo-2                                    Running
hubble-system   msgbroker-6c9b9fbf8b-mcsn5                 Running
hubble-system   oci-proxy-7789cf9bd8-qcjkl                 Running
hubble-system   packsync-28205220-bmzcg                    Succeeded
hubble-system   spectrocluster-6c57f5775d-dcm2q            Running
hubble-system   spectrocluster-6c57f5775d-gmdt2            Running
hubble-system   spectrocluster-6c57f5775d-sxks5            Running
hubble-system   system-686d77b947-8949z                    Running
hubble-system   system-686d77b947-cgzx6                    Running
hubble-system   timeseries-7865bc9c56-5q87l                Running
hubble-system   timeseries-7865bc9c56-scncb                Running
hubble-system   timeseries-7865bc9c56-sxmgb                Running
hubble-system   user-5c9f6c6f4b-9dgqz                      Running
hubble-system   user-5c9f6c6f4b-hxkj6                      Running
ingress-nginx   ingress-nginx-controller-2txsv             Running
ingress-nginx   ingress-nginx-controller-55pk2             Running
ingress-nginx   ingress-nginx-controller-gmps9             Running
jet-system      jet-6599b9856d-t9mr4                       Running
ui-system       spectro-ui-76ffdf67fb-rkgx8                Running

Prerequisites​

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Prerequisites

Upgrade

Validate