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Today, the entire agent upgrade process is executed by the old version being upgraded from. This has some limitations because it requires that the old release has enough information to be able to install the new version, which can slow down our ability to make changes to the install format, location, and procedure.
Some recent examples of how this problem presented itself:
We could mitigate this by moving a portion of the upgrade logic to a script contained in the tarball that is being upgraded to. This could lead to a procedure like:
Agent 9.0 downloads and unpacks 9.1 to a temporary directory
Agent 9.0 calls /tmp/path/to/9.1/upgrade.sh
upgrade.sh takes care of copying files to appropriate location, updating symlinks, and executing any other required logic for new features introduced since 9.0
One challenge with adding and relying on this is that we currently support upgrading from any 8.x version up to any other, so we wouldn't be able to rely on this until the next major version, and even then we'd only be able to rely on it if we require users upgrade to 8.last before upgrading to 9.x. Likely, the sooner we get something like this in the sooner we can take advantage of it.
Today, the entire agent upgrade process is executed by the old version being upgraded from. This has some limitations because it requires that the old release has enough information to be able to install the new version, which can slow down our ability to make changes to the install format, location, and procedure.
Some recent examples of how this problem presented itself:
We could mitigate this by moving a portion of the upgrade logic to a script contained in the tarball that is being upgraded to. This could lead to a procedure like:
/tmp/path/to/9.1/upgrade.sh
upgrade.sh
takes care of copying files to appropriate location, updating symlinks, and executing any other required logic for new features introduced since 9.0One challenge with adding and relying on this is that we currently support upgrading from any 8.x version up to any other, so we wouldn't be able to rely on this until the next major version, and even then we'd only be able to rely on it if we require users upgrade to 8.last before upgrading to 9.x. Likely, the sooner we get something like this in the sooner we can take advantage of it.
cc @aleksmaus
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