The following describes how to upgrade to new versions of Appian on Kubernetes for self-managed customers. This includes upgrades to both the Appian operator and the Appian images.
Download the new Appian operator Helm chart, pull the new Appian operator and Appian container images, and push the new images to your organization's registry.
To upgrade both the Appian operator and Appian images at the same time, you would:
Caution: Starting with version 0.156.0, a new license file will be required to start the operator. For more information about requesting and importing the license file, see the Installing Appian on Kubernetes page.
Upgrading the Appian operator is as simple as running helm upgrade:
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helm --namespace appian-operator upgrade appian-operator appian-operator-<APPIAN_OPERATOR_VERSION>.tgz \
--reset-then-reuse-values \
--wait
Note: If you have restricted the Appian operator's cluster-wide access and installed the operator's controllers in additional namespaces, repeat this step once for each namespace - substituting --namespace appian-operator with --namespace <NAMESPACE>.
If you have any trouble upgrading the operator, see Troubleshooting Appian on Kubernetes.
The following steps will upgrade the component images of the Appian site including webapp, data-server, and other components. This is typically done when there are new features released.
.spec.[COMPONENT].image.tag field to be the new version of the image.If you have any trouble upgrading Appian, see Troubleshooting Appian on Kubernetes.
