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updating Postgres version Overview
This guide will give you an overview of how KubeDB ops manager updates the version of Postgres
database.
Before You Begin
- You should be familiar with the following
KubeDB
concepts:
How update Process Works
The following diagram shows how KubeDB KubeDB ops manager used to update the version of Postgres
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![Postgres update Flow](/docs/v2023.10.9/guides/postgres/update-version/overview/images/pg-updating.png)
The updating process consists of the following steps:
At first, a user creates a
Postgres
cr.KubeDB-Provisioner
operator watches for thePostgres
cr.When it finds one, it creates a
StatefulSet
and related necessary stuff like secret, service, etc.Then, in order to update the version of the
Postgres
database the user creates aPostgresOpsRequest
cr with the desired version.KubeDB-ops-manager
operator watches forPostgresOpsRequest
.When it finds one, it Pauses the
Postgres
object so that theKubeDB-Provisioner
operator doesn’t perform any operation on thePostgres
during the updating process.By looking at the target version from
PostgresOpsRequest
cr, In case of major updateKubeDB-ops-manager
does some pre-update steps as we need old bin and lib files to update from current to target Postgres version.Then By looking at the target version from
PostgresOpsRequest
cr,KubeDB-ops-manager
operator updates the images of theStatefulSet
for updating versions.After successful upgradation of the
StatefulSet
and itsPod
images, theKubeDB-ops-manager
updates the image of thePostgres
object to reflect the updated cluster state.After successful upgradation of
Postgres
object, theKubeDB
ops manager resumes thePostgres
object so that theKubeDB-provisioner
can resume its usual operations.
In the next doc, we are going to show a step by step guide on updating of a Postgres database using update operation.