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Upgrading Cloud Platform and Infrastructure ​

Yellowbrick Deployer lets 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 subsequent 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.
  • GKE Release Channel (GCP only): A cluster created by an earlier Deployer version is enrolled in the Stable GKE release channel and given a maintenance policy, since Google no longer allows a cluster with no release channel.

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. This holds for the upgrade itself, including GKE release-channel enrolment on GCP; it does not cover a Google-initiated node upgrade forced at Kubernetes end of standard support on a cluster that was never brought current — see the note below.

On GCP, only a cluster the Deployer created is enrolled in a release channel — a cluster you brought yourself (a bring-your-own-network or imported cluster) is left untouched, and the upgrade output says so. Google removes the "No channel" option on 2027-06-14 and will then enroll any remaining cluster in Stable with node auto-upgrade on, so if you own your cluster, enroll it yourself before that date.

Running the Deployer ​

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

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.