See also: Upgrading things, Model
This document demonstrates how to upgrade a model. A model upgrade acts on all the machine and unit agents running on all the machines in the model.
Notes:
- Upgrades must be applied to the ‘controller’ model before upgrading other models. An error will be emitted if this is not done.
- By default, the latest stable version will be selected.
- Juju machines request the new agent software from the controller. If the latter’s cache cannot satisfy the request, the controller will attempt a download from the internet.
- A controller admin can upgrade any model within that controller.
- A model owner can upgrade that model.
See Notes on upgrading Juju software for upgrading details, including what to do when the controller lacks internet access.
Contents:
- Prepare for a model upgrade
- Perform a model upgrade
- Verify a model upgrade
- Troubleshoot a model upgrade
Prepare for a model upgrade
Some pre-upgrade tasks that should be considered:
- Perform a backup (see How to back up a controller).
- Ensure the models that are to be upgraded are in good working order by applying the
status
command to them. - See what version is currently running with
juju model-config agent-version
orjuju status
.
Perform a model upgrade
This section contains examples on upgrading a model, starting with the ‘controller’ model.
To upgrade the ‘controller’ model for the ‘aws’ controller with the latest stable version:
juju upgrade-controller -c aws
To upgrade the current model by specifying the version:
juju upgrade-model --agent-version 2.4.1
To upgrade the current model by specifying the agent stream:
juju upgrade-model --agent-stream proposed
Verify a model upgrade
To verify that the upgrade has been successful, run the status
command. Assuming we have a controller called aws
, our controller model has the default name controller
, and we want to verify an upgrade to the controller model, we can do this as below:
juju status -m aws:controller
If this command does not complete properly or if there are errors displayed in its output then proceed to the next section.
Troubleshoot a model upgrade
A model upgrade that does not lead to 100% success will require attention. See Troubleshooting model upgrades.