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LESSON

Upgrading Cloud Edition in Azure


Length: 3:12 min

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Learn how to upgrade Ignition Cloud Edition running on an Azure virtual machine.

Video recorded using: Ignition 8.3

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[00:00] In this lesson, I'll demonstrate how to upgrade Cloud Edition running in an Azure virtual machine. I'm currently running Cloud edition on 8.3.2, and in order to demonstrate upgrading, I can upgrade to the newest nightly. First thing I'll do is I'll go to my VM page in Azure. At the top of the page, I can click connect to see my connection options. I'll choose the default Native SSH option, but there are other options below. Connecting with this method involves using this command on my local machine to connect to my vm. This command just needs to substitute this placeholder for a path to the private key downloaded when I created my vm. Just a note, you'll need to make sure that you have the proper permissions to use the private key. If you're on Linux or Mac, you can use the "chmod 400" command, but I'm on a Windows machine, so my steps were slightly different. To summarize, I right clicked the private key and went to properties, and then the security tab. I clicked advanced and removed any permissions here aside from giving my user account full control.

[01:06] I've already done this, so I'll copy the SSH command from the connect page, and I'll open up PowerShell, my command line interface of choice. I just need to replace this part with the path to the private key, which I moved from my downloads folder to this folder here, and then I can hit enter, and now I'm connected to my vm. Next thing I wanna do is find the address to the installer I want. I'll head over to the Inductive Automation downloads page, click other operating systems and versions, pick my version from the dropdown, and then I'll right click the Ignition Cloud Linux installer and copy the link address. I'll switch back to my PowerShell window, and I'll download the installer to my VM by using the "wget" command and then pasting the link I just copied. Once it's finished downloading, it needs to be made executable. I can do that by typing "chmod +x" and then the file name.

[02:03] If I list my directory contents, I see that it changed color, which tells me it's executable and I can run it. The installer's gonna ask me a couple questions throughout this process, and I can just type out the answers. It'll ask which installation location I want. I'll just hit enter, which keeps the default location. It'll detect that this as an upgrade and ask me if I want to continue. I'll type Y and hit enter. Then I don't wanna modify any included modules. I'll type N and then N again for the additional modules. Then I can type Y one more time to start upgrading. Once it's done installing, I'll say, yes, I want to start Ignition, and then yes, to installing the service. Now I can go back to my gateway webpage and log into the homepage to confirm that I'm running the target version and my upgrade was successful.

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