upgrade plugin instruction

[venerari]

Hey Ilijamt

I tried this instruction,

https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/upgrading/plugins

/etc/vault/plugins $ vault plugin register \
>   -sha256=da7a2e4ecdbef307933bf62c8c643b25f79e9114b47e49693e7dcfb70f99f846 \
>   -command=vault-plugin-secrets-gitlab_v0.3.3 \
>   -version=v0.3.3 \
>   secret gitlab
Success! Registered plugin: gitlab
/etc/vault/plugins $ 
/etc/vault/plugins $ vault write sys/plugins/pins/secret/gitlab version=v0.3.3
Error writing data to sys/plugins/pins/secret/gitlab: Error making API request.

URL: PUT http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/plugins/pins/secret/gitlab
Code: 404. Errors:

* 1 error occurred:
        * unsupported path

But got error?

Please help! Venerari

[ilijamt]

I haven't tried the new way of upgrading of plugins. But what works for me is.

$ vault plugin register \
  -sha256=b5fd0a3481930211a09bb944aa96a18a9eab8e594b6773b25209330d752e5f83 \
  -command=gitlab\
  -version=v0.2.4 \
  secret \
  gitlab
$ vault secrets tune -plugin-version=v0.2.4 gitlab
$ vault plugin reload -plugin gitlab
$ vault secrets list -detailed -format=json | jq '."gitlab/"'
{
   "uuid":"759239c4-5fe1-4eb0-6105-480d1d67de5e",
   "type":"gitlab",
   "description":"",
   "accessor":"gitlab_294d3aea",
   "config":{
      "default_lease_ttl":2678400,
      "max_lease_ttl":31622400,
      "force_no_cache":false
   },
   "options":null,
   "local":false,
   "seal_wrap":false,
   "external_entropy_access":false,
   "plugin_version":"v0.2.4",
   "running_plugin_version":"v0.2.4",
   "running_sha256":"b5fd0a3481930211a09bb944aa96a18a9eab8e594b6773b25209330d752e5f83",
   "deprecation_status":""
}

[TJM]

The vault write sys/plugins/pins/secret/gitlab path is new in 1.16.x (at least it changed in the 1.16.x docs), and even though we are on vault 1.16.2, the path didn't work for us. We used the old vault secrets tune -plugin-version=v0.3.3 gitlab, and it worked for us.

[ilijamt]

I haven't had a chance to go over and see what is needed to change the upgrade path to the new way of things.