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On 2 November 2017 at 18:17, Chris Friesen <chris.friesen at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2017 01:13 AM, haad wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have an OSA installation with 10-12 compute nodes running Mitaka on
>> Ubuntu
>> 16.04. As initially we have not prepared any long term update strategy we
>> would
>> like to create one now. Plan would be to upgrade it to new OSA
>> release(Ocata/Pike/Queens) in near future.
>>
>> Our original plan was to update management/networking/backend at once by
>> using
>> rolling updates to newer release and then upgrade compute nodes one by one
>> to
>> new release.. I think that [2] provides a general upgrade manual. Is there
>> any
>> document describing how are different OSA releases compatible ? Is there
>> any
>> policy in place about backward compatibility ?
>
>
> As a general rule, OpenStack only supports an online upgrade of one version
> at a time.  That is, controller nodes running version N can talk to compute
> nodes running version N-1.
>
> If you can tolerate downtime of the API layer, there has been some
> discussion around "skip-level" upgrades.
>
> Chris
>
>
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Hello,

Having worked on "skip level" upgrades, I can tell you that it's
simpler to do the upgrades in a row, because it's a more tested path.

Best regards,
Jean-Philippe Evrard (evrardjp)