Rollover Upgrade for Services
By default, the Overnode up command launches all containers in parallel for all nodes and services.
For production life systems, it is very vital to have the safe upgrade procedure, which stops applying changes if a problem is encountered. Usually, it is referred as rollover upgrade procedure, when containers are updated service-by-service and/or node-by-node.
Overnode supports rollover upgrade functionality. Let's explore how to use it.
First, a service should have defined health check. Coming back to the previous echo server example with the added health check option:
Once health check is defined, the up command can use it and execute rollover upgrade. For example:
This executes controlled serial launch / update of services.
If at least one service argument is specified,
it brings each service up, one by one on each required node.
In the example above we enumerated only one service, echo
.
If service argument is not specified, it brings all services up on each node, node by node.
Rollover launch / update operation continues iterations only if the launched services / nodes are in healthy state after each iteration.
Related options
All container state management commands, like up, have got --serial
argument, which allows targeting nodes one by one. This does not do health checking before switching to the next node.
It is also possible to target specific nodes, for example:
And / or specific services, for example: