Best way to (minor) upgrade chef server?

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Hi

I couldn’t find this in the docs. What’s the best way to upgrade chef server from say 11.0.8 to 11.0.10?
Just "dpkg -i chef-server.deb && chef-server-ctl reconfigure” or are there any more actions required?

Kr,
S

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steven@banteng.be writes:

I couldn’t find this in the docs. What’s the best way to upgrade chef server from say 11.0.8 to 11.0.10?
Just "dpkg -i chef-server.deb && chef-server-ctl reconfigure” or are
there any more actions required?

You should stop the services first before upgrading. So for a minor
update:

chef-server-ctl stop
dpkg -i chef-server-$VERSION.deb
chef-server-ctl reconfigure
chef-server-ctl start
chef-server-ctl status

  • seth

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Unfortunately, chef-server-ctl stop will not work on the most recently
released versions of chef-server. The reconfigure recipe for Postgres tries
to determine if it needs to create the database, and the database needs to
be running for this to take place. You should be just fine running the
commands you mentioned in your first post (dpkg -i / reconfigure).
Depending on the size of your infrastructure, Solr may take some time to
restart and has even timed out on occasion. If this happens, simply wait
for Solr to start back up and run reconfigure again.

The Postgres recipe bug will be fixed in the next release of chef-server,
which is currently in the works:

-Stephen

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Seth Falcon seth@getchef.com wrote:

steven@banteng.be writes:

I couldn't find this in the docs. What's the best way to upgrade chef
server from say 11.0.8 to 11.0.10?
Just "dpkg -i chef-server.deb && chef-server-ctl reconfigure" or are
there any more actions required?

You should stop the services first before upgrading. So for a minor
update:

chef-server-ctl stop
dpkg -i chef-server-$VERSION.deb
chef-server-ctl reconfigure
chef-server-ctl start
chef-server-ctl status

  • seth

--
Seth Falcon | Development Lead | CHEF | http://www.getchef.com/ | @sfalcon

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