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Dirk Thannhäuser
Asked: 2013-03-25 14:42:57 +0800 CST

Upgrade provisioned Joyent SmartMachine

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I am currently running a provisioned Joyent SmartMachine base64 version 1.8.2 with some standard software (apache, php) installed.

Is ist possible to make an upgrade to a newer version (for example to SmartMachine base64 1.9.1) without provisioning a new SmartMachine and then transferring all installed packages and data to that SmartMachine manually?

I would be interested if there was a possibility to do a 'distribution-like upgrade'.

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2 Answers

  1. There isn't a way to upgrade from one base image to another. You would have to provision a new base image and migrate what you have over.

    However, you can update an existing base image to a newer pkgsrc release though. That tends to be what people typically want, access to the newer packages.

    There are instructions on how to do that here:

    http://wiki.joyent.com/wiki/display/jpc2/pkgsrc+Releases#pkgsrcReleases-UpdatingthepkgsrcRepository

    Before doing that I would strongly recommend taking a snapshot of your current machine first so you can roll back if something goes wrong.

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  2. I found this:

    We believe that re-provisioning is just better practise. It enforces a separation of configuration and data, and encourages the use of high level configuration management tools to design and workflow your deployments. On the contrary, applying blind updates to an existing install very quickly turns it into a black box, with no way to fully understand the dependencies involved and making it almost impossible to be able to replicate that environment from a clean install. - https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00756.html

    So you should better learn some Ansible, Puppet or Chef, I guess.

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