Upgrading solutions and solution instances

You can upgrade the available data solutions and their instances within the
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
.
When you upgrade a solution, you upgrade the solution version of an operator, which runs within a
Kubernetes
cluster. The package in the container registry determines the available versions of a solution. When you upgrade a solution instance, you upgrade the engine version of an instance, which runs within a
Kubernetes
cluster. Solution upgrade and instance upgrade are separate operations, apart from
VMware SQL with Postgres
. The upgrade of
VMware SQL with Postgres
includes both the solution version and the instance version.

Upgrade a solution

  1. Log in to
    VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
    from
    VMware Cloud Director
    .
  2. Click
    Solutions
    and on the solution card, click
    Upgrade
    .
    1. Select the clusters to which you want to apply the upgrade.
      If you upgrade
      VMware SQL with Postgres
      , all instances of this solution, within the cluster, are automatically updated.
    2. Select the upgrade version.
    3. Acknowledge that you have read and completed the pre-upgrade actions and click
      Upgrade
      .

Upgrade a solution instance

If you want to upgrade an instance of
Confluent Platform
, see Upgrade the Confluent Platform solution instance.
  1. Log in to
    VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
    from
    VMware Cloud Director
    .
  2. Click
    Instances
    and select the solution instance that you want to upgrade.
    1. Review all instances of the solution within this cluster, select any additional instances that you want to upgrade, and click
      Next
      .
    2. Select the upgrade version, review and acknowledge the instructions, and click
      Upgrade
      .

Upgrade the
Confluent Platform
solution instance

You can upgrade the
Confluent Platform
instance by editing the instance's manifest.
  1. Log in to
    VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
    from
    VMware Cloud Director
    .
  2. Click
    Instances
    , select the solution instance that you want to upgrade, and click
    Edit
    .
  3. In the
    Manifest Editor
    , navigate to
    image.application
    and
    image.init
    , and set the values to the version of
    Confluent Platform
    that you want to upgrade to.
    For more information on the
    Confluent Platform
    versions, see Plan for Confluent Platform Deployment using Confluent for Kubernetes in the
    Confluent Documentation
    .
kind: Kafka spec: image: application: hub.docker.com/confluentinc/cp-server:
v.v.v
init: hub.docker.com/confluentinc/confluent-init-container:
v.v.v
kind: Zookeeper spec: image: application: hub.docker.com/confluentinc/cp-server:
v.v.v
init: hub.docker.com/confluentinc/confluent-init-container:
v.v.v
kind: ControlCenter spec: image: application: hub.docker.com/confluentinc/cp-enterprise-control-center:
v.v.v
init: hub.docker.com/confluentinc/confluent-init-container:
v.v.v