Upgrading Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Yellowbrick Deployer let's you upgrade the platform and cloud infrastructure powering the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse Instance. A typical Infrastructure upgrade could include:

• Kubernetes Infrastructure: Any control plane (AKS/EKS/GKE) version and subsquent node upgrades.
• Infrastructure: Other infrastructure components such as IAM roles/policies/permissions on the respective cloud platform.
• Components: Components including Yellowbrick Operator, Manager, Monitoring or any other kubernetes components used for running Yellowbrick.
• Software Version: A new version of Yellowbrick Data Warehouse Instance.

INFO

The Infrastructure Upgrade process is a Zero Downtime Event for the Database instance, and any database functions won't be affected. During the upgrade, only Yellowbrick Manager and Operator functions may be unavailable.

Running the Deployer

To start the ugpgrade process, follow the instructions to create the Deployer in your respective environment:

• AWS installation instructions
• Azure installation instructions
• GCP installation instructions

After running the deployer, you can navigate to the deployer UI to start the Upgrade process.

If you want to use the CLI to upgrade, see the CLI reference for more information.