Upgrade Chef Automate

Chef Automate upgrades from one minor version to another automatically, but you cannot directly upgrade to any major version of Chef Automate. Use the --major flag to upgrade from the latest to a major version. This section will talk about the major version upgrade of Chef Automate with its possible scenarios.

Release Channels

The Chef Automate upgrade process makes use of release channels to allow greater control over the automatic upgrades applied to your system. Chef Automate pulls the latest release within a specified release channel. The default channel is the current channel.

To change the release channel that is used for upgrades, modify the channel setting in your config.toml file:

channel = "current"

Disable Automatic Upgrades

You can disable automatic upgrades by changing the upgrade_strategy setting to none in your config.toml:

upgrade_strategy = "none"

To manually initiate a minor upgrade, run:

chef-automate upgrade run

To manually initiate a major upgrade, run:

chef-automate upgrade run --major

This command upgrades Chef Automate to the latest version available from your release channel.

Troubleshoot an Upgrade

If you are unable to open Chef Automate, check that the config.toml contains the public DNS as the FQDN.

# This is a default Chef Automate configuration file. You can run
# 'chef-automate deploy' with this config file and it should
# successfully create a new Chef Automate instance with default settings.

[global.v1]
# The external fully qualified domain name.
# When the application is deployed you should be able to access 'https://<fqdn>/'
# to login.
fqdn = "<_Public DNS_name>"

Once you correct and save the FQDN, run:

sudo chef-automate config patch config.toml

Open Chef Automate in your browser.