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Devtron Upgrade

Devtron can be upgraded in one of the following ways:

Upgrade Devtron using Helm

Versions Upgrade

Upgrade Devtron from the UI

Update Devtron from Devtron UI

Devtron can be updated from the Devtron Stack Manager > About Devtron section.

Select Update to Devtron

The update process may show one of the following statuses, with details available for tracking, troubleshooting, and additional information:

Updating Devtron also updates the installed integrations.

0.6.x-0.7.x

To check the current version of your Devtron setup, use the following command

kubectl -n devtroncd get installers installer-devtron -o jsonpath='{.status.sync.data}' | grep "^LTAG=" | cut -d"=" -f2-

Proceed with the following steps only if the version is 0.6.x

Prerequisites

Set the release name

export RELEASE_NAME=devtron

Label and annotate the service accounts in the devtron-ci namespace

kubectl -n devtron-ci label sa --all "app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm" --overwrite
kubectl -n devtron-ci annotate sa --all "meta.helm.sh/release-name=$RELEASE_NAME" "meta.helm.sh/release-namespace=devtroncd" --overwrite

Now, label and annotate the service accounts in the devtron-cd namespace

kubectl -n devtron-cd label sa --all "app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm" --overwrite
kubectl -n devtron-cd annotate sa --all "meta.helm.sh/release-name=$RELEASE_NAME" "meta.helm.sh/release-namespace=devtroncd" --overwrite

Upgrade Commands

Update the Helm repository

helm repo update

Run the upgrade command for Devtron

helm upgrade devtron devtron/devtron-operator -n devtroncd --reuse-values -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/devtron/main/charts/devtron/devtron-bom.yaml

Expected Command Output

0.5.x-0.6.x

If you want to check the current version of Devtron you are using, please use the following command.

kubectl -n devtroncd get installers installer-devtron -o jsonpath='{.status.sync.data}' | grep "^LTAG=" | cut -d"=" -f2-

Follow the below mentioned steps to upgrade the Devtron version using Helm

1. Check the devtron release name

helm list --namespace devtroncd

2. Set release name in the variable

export RELEASE_NAME=devtron

3. Run the following script to upgrade

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/utilities/main/scripts/shell/upgrade-devtron-v6.sh

sh upgrade-devtron-v6.sh

Please ignore any errors you encounter while running the upgrade script

0.4.x-0.5.x

If you want to check the current version of Devtron you are using, please use the following command.

Follow the below mentioned steps to upgrade the Devtron version using Helm

1. Apply Prerequisites Patch Job

If you are using rawYaml in deployment template, this update can introduce breaking changes. We recommend you to update the Chart Version of your app to v4.13.0 to make rawYaml section compatible to new argocd version v2.4.0.

We have released a argocd-v2.4.0 patch job to fix the compatibilities issues. Please apply this job in your cluster and wait for completion and then only upgrade to Devtron v0.5.x.

2. Check the devtron release name

3. Set release name in the variable

4. Fetch the latest Devtron helm chart

5. Upgrade Devtron

5.1 Upgrade Devtron to latest version

5.2 Upgrade Devtron to a custom version

You can find the latest releases from Devtron on Github https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron/releases

0.4.x-0.4.x

If you want to check the current version of Devtron you are using, please use the following command.

Follow the below mentioned steps to upgrade the Devtron version using Helm

1. Check the devtron release name

2. Set release name in the variable

3. Fetch the latest Devtron helm chart

4. Upgrade Devtron

4.1 Upgrade Devtron to latest version

4.2 Upgrade Devtron to a custom version. You can find the latest releases from Devtron on Github https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron/releases

0.3.x-0.4.x

If you want to check the current version of Devtron you are using, please use the following command.

Follow the below mentioned steps to upgrade the Devtron version using Helm

1. Check the devtron release name

2. Set release name in the variable

3. Annotate and Label all the Devtron resources

4. Fetch the latest Devtron helm chart

5. Upgrade Devtron

5.1 Upgrade Devtron to latest version

5.2 Upgrade Devtron to a custom version. You can find the latest releases from Devtron on Github https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron/releases

0.3.x-0.3.x

If you want to check the current version of Devtron you are using, please use the following command.

Follow the below mentioned steps to upgrade the Devtron version using Helm

Fetch the latest Devtron helm chart

Input the target Devtron version that you want to upgrade to. You can find the latest releases from Devtron on Github https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron/releases

Upgrade Devtron

Follow the below mentioned steps to upgrade the Devtron version using Kubectl

Input the target Devtron version that you want to upgrade to. You can find the latest releases from Devtron on Github https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron/releases

Patch Devtron Installer

0.2.x-0.3.x

Follow the required steps to update the Devtron version

STEP 1

Delete the respective resources i.e, nats-operator , nats-streaming and nats-server using the following commands.

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/devtron/v0.2.37/manifests/yamls/nats-operator.yaml
kubectl -n devtroncd delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/devtron/v0.2.37/manifests/yamls/nats-streaming.yaml
kubectl -n devtroncd delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/devtron/v0.2.37/manifests/yamls/nats-server.yaml

STEP 2

Verify the deletion of resources using the following commands.

kubectl -n devtroncd get pods 
kubectl -n devtroncd get serviceaccount
kubectl -n devtroncd get clusterrole

STEP 3

Set reSync: true in the installer object, this will initiate upgrade of the entire Devtron stack, you can use the following command to do this.

kubectl patch -n devtroncd installer installer-devtron --type='json' -p='[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/reSync", "value": true }]'

0.6.x-0.7.x

To check the current version of your Devtron setup, use the following command

kubectl -n devtroncd get installers installer-devtron -o jsonpath='{.status.sync.data}' | grep "^LTAG=" | cut -d"=" -f2-

Proceed with the following steps only if the version is 0.6.x

Prerequisites

Set the release name

export RELEASE_NAME=devtron

Label and annotate the service accounts in the devtron-ci namespace

kubectl -n devtron-ci label sa --all "app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm" --overwrite
kubectl -n devtron-ci annotate sa --all "meta.helm.sh/release-name=$RELEASE_NAME" "meta.helm.sh/release-namespace=devtroncd" --overwrite

Now, label and annotate the service accounts in the devtron-cd namespace

kubectl -n devtron-cd label sa --all "app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm" --overwrite
kubectl -n devtron-cd annotate sa --all "meta.helm.sh/release-name=$RELEASE_NAME" "meta.helm.sh/release-namespace=devtroncd" --overwrite

Upgrade Commands

Update the Helm repository

helm repo update

Run the upgrade command for Devtron

helm upgrade devtron devtron/devtron-operator -n devtroncd --reuse-values -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/devtron/main/charts/devtron/devtron-bom.yaml

Expected Command Output

0.4.x-0.5.x

If you want to check the current version of Devtron you are using, please use the following command.

Follow the below mentioned steps to upgrade the Devtron version using Helm

1. Apply Prerequisites Patch Job

We have released a argocd-v2.4.0 patch job to fix the compatibilities issues. Please apply this job in your cluster and wait for completion and then only upgrade to Devtron v0.5.x.

2. Check the devtron release name

3. Set release name in the variable

4. Fetch the latest Devtron helm chart

5. Upgrade Devtron

5.1 Upgrade Devtron to latest version

helm upgrade devtron devtron/devtron-operator --namespace devtroncd \
-f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/devtron/main/charts/devtron/devtron-bom.yaml \
--set installer.modules={cicd} --reuse-values

5.2 Upgrade Devtron to a custom version

You can find the latest releases from Devtron on Github https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron/releases

DEVTRON_TARGET_VERSION=v0.5.x

helm upgrade devtron devtron/devtron-operator --namespace devtroncd \
-f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtron-labs/devtron/$DEVTRON_TARGET_VERSION/charts/devtron/devtron-bom.yaml \
--set installer.modules={cicd} --reuse-values