================================== Rackspace Private Cloud - Upgrades

Overview

Incremental

Incremental upgrades are major version to major version upgrades that leverage the upstream run-upgrade.sh script provided in each release of Openstack Ansible. They are used for releases for releases Newton and on. They allow a stairstep approach to upgrading the environment.

Supported incremental upgrades:

Ubuntu 16.04 required:

• Newton to Pike (Ocata is skipped)
• Newton to Queens
• Queens to Rocky

Ubuntu 18.04 required:

• Rocky to Stein
• Stein to Train
• Train to Ussuri
• Ussuri to Victoria

Ubuntu 20.04 required:

• Victoria to Wallaby (testing)

Full docs for Incremental upgrades are here <incremental.rst>_.

Leapfrog

A Leapfrog upgrade is a major upgrade that skips at least one release. Currently rpc-upgrades repo supports:

Leapfrog upgrades from:

• kilo to r14.23.0 (newton)
• liberty to r14.23.0 (newton)
• mitaka to r14.23.0 (newton)

Full docs for Leapfrog upgrades are here <leapfrog.rst>_.

Job Testing

Currently no automated testing is in place