Updating your DeepFactor Portal Follow

At DeepFactor, we regularly release new features and enhancements to our offering. It is recommended to keep your portal up to date. This article outlines the steps needed to upgrade your DeepFactor Portal

Updating OVA / AMI DeepFactor Portal

If you installed the DeepFactor Portal using OVA / CFT / AMI, you will see the bell icon with a number at the top right of the DeepFactor Portal UI. When you click this, you will see the message that an upgrade is available.

When you click on this notification, you will be navigated to Admin Settings → Software Update page. On this page you will see the currently installed and the latest available version. Please click on ‘Upgrade Now’ to start the upgrade process. Please note, this process can take upto 15 minutes and during this process, telemetry from your components running with DeepFactor will be lost. You can also click on ‘Read Release Notes’ to view the changes done in this release.

Updating K8s DeepFactor Portal

If you installed DeepFactor portal using helm charts, please follow the below steps to upgrade your DeepFactor portal

Login to a machine that has

1. kubectl installed

2. helm installed

3. kube-config installed for the K8s cluster on which DeepFactor Portal is installed.

Run the following commands

helm repo add deepfactor https://static.deepfactor.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm upgrade df-stable deepfactor/deepfactor -f override.yaml --set dfstartup.enabled=false --namespace=deepfactor

where

df-stable is the release name specified when you installed the DeepFactor helm charts.

override.yaml is the path to the override parameters yaml file you specified during installation.

Please note, the latest DeepFactor Portal images will be pulled and pods will be restarted during this process causing a small downtime. During this period, telemetry from your application components running with DeepFactor will be lost.