If you are managing GKE clusters using Anthos Config Management (ACM) and need to take advantage of newer features or enhancements in ConfigSync or PolicyController, upgrading these components can be done using the gcloud utility. # check current version of ACM on GKE clusters gcloud beta container fleet config-management version # select membership to upgrade … GKE: upgrade Anthos Config Management for GKE cluster
If you are getting a warning similar to below when running a Python3 application: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py:219: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Blowfish has been deprecated This can be resolved by upgrading to the latest paramiko module. # check current version then upgrade pip3 show paramiko pip3 install paramiko –upgrade # check upgraded version pip3 show paramiko In my case, this … Python: fixing ‘CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Blowfish has been deprecated’
OpenWrt now has a feature called Attended Sysupgrade that removes the friction required to do a sysupgrade. Previously, we needed to take note of the user installed packages on a system so they could be manually re-installed after the sysupgrade, but now the ASU backend dynamically builds an image with our custom packages pre-installed. This … OpenWrt: sysupgrade using Attended Sysupgrade
Migrating from one Python 3.x version to a newer 3.x minor version seems like it would just be a simple ‘apt install’ of the latest Python package. But you most likely have pip modules installed at a version specific ‘dist-packages’ or ‘site-packages’ directory, and those modules have to be freshly installed into the newer version … Python: migrating pip modules to newer Python version on Ubuntu
If the gradle wrapper for your project is broken, you can reinstall it with the “gradle wrapper” command. For example, below is a common error if you have cloned a git repository where the owner has not pushed all the necessary gradle components into the repo. $ ./gradlew –info Error: Could not find or load … Gradle: fixing the gradle wrapper for a Java project
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. In this article, I will be following the steps required to upgrade from Anthos 1.10 to 1.11 on VMware. The instructions provided here are assuming you have used the Ansible scripts and Seed VM described in my previous Anthos 1.10 installation … Kubernetes: major version upgrade of Anthos GKE on-prem from 1.10 to 1.11
Since the announcement of CVE-2022-24765, newer git clients from the Ubuntu security and archive package repositories may throw errors about “unsafe repository … is owned by someone else” if directories are not owned by your personal user id. First, try to resolve the issue by running the command suggested in the error message. # attempt … Ubuntu: install latest git client from PPA to fix ‘unsafe repository’ errors
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. In this article, I will be following the steps required to upgrade from 1.9 to 1.10 on VMware. The instructions provided here are assuming you have used the Ansible scripts and Seed VM described in my previous Anthos 1.9 installation article.
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. In this article, I will be following the steps required to perform a minor-version upgrade from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2 on VMware. I will be using the same environment and config files described in my Anthos 1.9 installation article.
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. In this article, I will be following the steps required to upgrade from 1.8 to 1.9 on VMware. The instructions provided here are assuming you have used the Ansible scripts and Seed VM described in my previous Anthos 1.8 installation article.
Istio announced it will support upgrades jumping directly from 1.8 to 1.10, instead of forcing an intermediate upgrade through 1.9. In this article, I will show you how to do a canary upgrade from a 1.8 operator to 1.10 operator without affecting end user traffic. We will incorporate the new 1.10 concept of revision tags … Istio: Canary upgrade of Operator from Istio 1.8 directly to 1.10
Istio 1.7 has the ability to do canary upgrades for revisioned control planes and operators. In this article, I will show you how to do a canary upgrade of the Istio control plane between minor versions without affecting end user traffic.
Istio 1.7 has the ability to do canary upgrades for revisioned control planes and operators, but if you did your initial installation without the ‘revision’ flag, then you’ll need to apply these settings. In this article, I will show you how to go from an non-revisioned 1.7.5 Istio operator and control plane to a 1.7.5 … Istio: Upgrading from Istio 1.7 operator without revision to fully revisioned control plane
Istio has the ability to do canary upgrades for revisioned control planes, but it was only in 1.7 that the Operator itself got support for the ‘revision’ flag. In this article, I will show you how to go from an non-revisioned 1.6.6 Istio operator and control plane to a 1.7 revisioned operator and control plane … Istio: Upgrading from Istio 1.6 operator without revision to 1.7 fully revisioned control plane
Zabbix distributes Docker images for each component. Not only does this mean you can quickly standup the monitoring solution, but upgrades also become a simple matter of trading up images. In this article, I will show how to stand up and then upgrade a zabbix installation using docker-compose.
The recommended way to run a Gradle build is with the Gradle wrapper. You can check the current version of your wrapper with the command: $ ./gradlew –version If you are working with an older Gradle version and want to upgrade to take advantage of new features, you can use the ‘wrapper’ task specifying the … Gradle: Upgrading the Gradle wrapper version
Update Jan 2023: I have written an updated article on doing a sysupgrade from older OpenWrt versions to 19.x. If you want to do an in-place sysupgrade of a 19.x or earlier snapshot, use the instructions from the newer article, but selecting a snapshot image instead of a stable release image. Although stables releases of … OpenWrt: Upgrading OpenWrt to the latest snapshot build