Upgrade Portworx using a Nomad job

Upgrade Portworx with Nomad by editing the portworx.nomad file you used for initial deployment and updating the container version.

Perform the following steps to update to the latest Portworx version:

1. Modify the image key value in your portworx.nomad file, changing the version to the latest Portworx version, for example, 2.11.1:

image = "portworx/oci-monitor:2.11.1"

2. Rerun the portworx.nomad file:

nomad run portworx.nomad

Nomad will do a rolling upgrade, i.e., only one instance will be updated at a time, not causing an impact on any applications (assuming application are running with more than one volume replica).

During the upgrade, you may see two versions of Portworx since we are doing a rolling upgrade:

pxctl status

Status: PX is operational
License: Trial (expires in 31 days)
Node ID: 6aab46fd-50dc-4df6-ab6e-e0aa8d74b458
    IP: X.X.X.0
    Local Storage Pool: 1 pool
    POOL    IO_PRIORITY    RAID_LEVEL    USABLE    USED    STATUS    ZONE        REGION
    0    LOW        raid0        50 GiB    4.3 GiB    Online    us-east-2b    us-east-2
    Local Storage Devices: 1 device
    Device    Path        Media Type        Size        Last-Scan
    0:1    /dev/xvdd    STORAGE_MEDIUM_SSD    50 GiB        08 May 19 01:05 UTC
    total            -            50 GiB
    Cache Devices:
    No cache devices
Cluster Summary
    Cluster ID: px-cluster-nomadv8
    Cluster UUID: daea8eb0-c136-4201-a46e-3daa87d1272a
    Scheduler: none
    Nodes: 3 node(s) with storage (3 online)
    IP        ID                    SchedulerNodeName    StorageNode    Used    Capacity    Status    StorageStatus    Version        Kernel        OS
    10.1.2.34    6aab46fd-50dc-4df6-ab6e-e0aa8d74b458    N/A            Yes        4.3 GiB    50 GiB        Online    Up (This node)    2.1.1.0-9df38f7    4.4.0-1079-aws    Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
    10.1.1.111    4c128653-0569-4696-afea-063ddc7ef522    N/A            Yes        4.3 GiB    50 GiB        Online    Up        2.0.3.4-0c0bbe4    4.4.0-1079-aws    Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
    10.1.1.199    27e3c1b5-48bc-41f4-981e-25fc5d0ee7f4    N/A            Yes        4.3 GiB    50 GiB        Online    Up        2.0.3.4-0c0bbe4    4.4.0-1079-aws    Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
    Warnings:
        WARNING: Persistent journald logging is not enabled on this node.
Global Storage Pool
    Total Used        :  13 GiB
    Total Capacity    :  150 Gi

All instances should be healthy after the upgrade is complete:

nomad status portworx

ID            = portworx
Name          = portworx
Submit Date   = 2019-05-08T01:04:09Z
Type          = service
Priority      = 50
Datacenters   = dc1
Status        = running
Periodic      = false
Parameterized = false

Summary
Task Group  Queued  Starting  Running  Failed  Complete  Lost
portworx    0       0         3        0       3         0

Latest Deployment
ID          = abc02ac3
Status      = successful
Description = Deployment completed successfully

Deployed
Task Group  Auto Revert  Desired  Placed  Healthy  Unhealthy  Progress Deadline
portworx    true         3        3       3        0          2019-05-08T01:18:53Z

Allocations
ID        Node ID   Task Group  Version  Desired  Status    Created     Modified
3a50ca69  e074a6b0  portworx    1        run      running   1m35s ago   2s ago
315b1c09  2299a3b6  portworx    1        run      running   3m11s ago   1m37s ago
97589e12  6138409d  portworx    1        run      running   4m46s ago   3m13s ago
20a20fd0  e074a6b0  portworx    0        stop     complete  20m15s ago  1m35s ago
54f759fa  2299a3b6  portworx    0        stop     complete  20m15s ago  3m11s ago
c44ee856  6138409d  portworx    0        stop     complete  20m15s ago  4m46s ago