Updating Tonic
For a Kubernetes deployment, Tonic Settings view includes an option to update to the latest version of Tonic.
For a Docker deployment, you use
docker-compose commands to get the latest version.Before you update Tonic, we suggest that you do the following:
- Have a system to regularly back up your Tonic PostgreSQL application database.
- Verify that the Kubernetes environment has access to quay.io. If you run Tonic in an air-gapped environment, or if you re-hosted the images from quay.io, make sure that values.yaml reflects this change, and that you have updated your local repository with the latest version from quay.io. To view the current latest release version, see Release notes.
- Update your helm charts to use the
latesttag. If you manage your helm charts in a repository that has a pinned version tag, then when you redeploy from your helm charts, Tonic reverts to the pinned version tag.
Before it can enable the update option, Tonic must be able to retrieve information about the latest Tonic version.
To support this, you must allowlist the following URLs:
- https://temp-tonic-release.s3.amazonaws.com/version.txt
- https://temp-tonic-release.s3.amazonaws.com/?prefix=version.txt
Required global permission: Update Tonic
Before you launch an update:
- Verify that there is enough system space for a second instance of the Tonic application. While the new instance starts, the original instance is still live. Once the new instance is running, the original is removed and the resources are freed up.
The option to update Tonic is on the System Status tab of Tonic Settings view.
To display Tonic Settings view, in the Tonic heading, click Tonic Settings.
On the System Status tab, if you can update Tonic, a blue Update to Tonic <version> button displays. The button is only available if Tonic is not on the most recent version.
You cannot start the update if Tonic jobs are running or are queued to run.
After you start the update, do not start other jobs until the update is complete.
You are given an estimated down time when you start the update, but the update typically takes less than ten minutes.
Any jobs that start during update process are silently terminated. This could leave your destination database in an unexpected state. If this happens, rerun the jobs.
The update option on Tonic Settings view is not available for instances that are hosted on Docker.