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Kiuwan CoreKiuwan On-Premises itself. This is the image version of your Kiuwan containers (front, analyzer and scheduler nodes).
Kiuwan ClientsKiuwan On-Premises clients. These are the clients provided along with your current Kiuwan On-Premises installation. Sometimes clients may be updated without the need of a full Kiuwan On-Premises upgrade that includes Kiuwan Core. See Upgrade: clients only mode section for more information.
Installed versionThis column shows the version name of the current installed versions (both for Kiuwan core and clients).
Last available versionThis column shows the latest available version of Kiuwan core and clients.
StatusWhen a new version is detected this column will indicate that an upgrade is available.
Minimum Kiuwan On-Premises version needed to upgrade clientsIf your current Kiuwan Core version is less than this version, new versions of Kiuwan On-Premises clients will not be available for your installation anymore. If you want to upgrade, it is mandatory to perform a full upgrade. See Upgrade: full mode section for more information.

Upgrade modes

You can choose either to upgrade only Kiuwan On-Premises clients or perform a full upgrade to your Kiuwan On-Premises installation.

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You can choose to upgrade only Kiuwan On-Premises clients as long as their latest versions are compatible with your currently installed Kiuwan core. The upgrade process will check this for your and stop the upgrade if your current Kiuwan core is not compatible with the latest available clients.

Kiuwan On-Premises clients are those Kiuwan products that your Kiuwan On-Premises servers will provide to your users:

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There are more Kiuwan clients that you may need to upgrade, but are provided by external sources and you should follow the standard upgrade procedure of their platform. Note that these products latests versions may be only compatible with the latest available Kiuwan On-Premises core services:

  • Kiuwan Jenkins plugin: downloadable from the Jenkins plugin repository.
  • Kiuwan Microsoft TFS Azure extension: downloadable through the Azure DevOps marketplace.

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Choose this upgrade mode if:

  • New versions of Kiuwan On-Premises clients are available

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  • You want to upgrade your installation to make your Kiuwan On-Premises servers provide the latest available versions of each client

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  • You want to keep your Kiuwan services untouched

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Note

Do not mix up what a Kiuwan On-Premises client version is. These are different concepts:

  • Client versions stored in your Kiuwan On-Premises servers: these are the versions that your Kiuwan On-Premises server provides to be downloaded and installed on your CI systems, development computers, etc. This versions are those shown in the System Administration Console.
  • Client versions installed in your company's laptops, CI systems, etc.: these are the versions that were installed after your first Kiuwan On-Premises installation or subsequent upgrades. Once you upgrade your installation client versions, your company's computers may have old versions of Kiuwan On-Premises clients. The following steps address how to upgrade these as well.

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Upgrade: common steps

Either if you are upgrading only clients or performing a full upgrade, your must follow this these steps before continuingstarting the upgrade process.

Step 1: backup your current volumes

Just in case an unexpected error occurs during the upgrade process, it is convenient that your backup all your volumes before proceeding.

Your should copy all files under these directories and keep the copy in a safe place:

  • [VOLUMES_DIR]/config-shared
  • [VOLUMES_DIR]/data-local
  • [VOLUMES_DIR]/data-shared

Step 2: check clients upgrade bypass configuration

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