I updated my sites from 3.1.0.beta1 to 3.1.0.beta2, and after bootstrapping the new version, but before destroying the old app containers and starting new ones, at least one of those sites started giving the generic error page to users. I didn’t notice it on my test site or the other sites I run, b…

[image] Problems with self-hosted upgrade to 3.x: cannot roll back … @mcdanlj Can you paste what errors you were getting? I’d like to repeat that I was not using the GUI updater. I have a multi-container install. I did: git pull ./launcher bootstrap app ./launcher destroy app && ./launcher sta…

[image] Michael K Johnson: the old software still running fails due to a schema inconsistency Are you doing a two-stage migration with Introducing Post Deployment Migration ? This pattern is critical if you’re doing e.g. a blue/green deployment and need the previous version to continue to fu…

[image] Michael Brown: Are you doing a two-stage migration with Introducing Post Deployment Migration ? [image] Michael K Johnson: I did: git pull ./launcher bootstrap app ./launcher destroy app && ./launcher start app ./launcher cleanup I think that answers the question. The launcher …

I did not come up with the “problem” in the topic title; that was done when my comment was moved out of the announcement thread. I have now modified the title to make it clear, I hope, that I’m not complaining about a problem. :relaxed:

All good! I suspect that there are a very small number of users doing multi-container blue/green, but we would be welcome to suggestions on how to do that. And also, how to find the topic I linked; I suspect it’s not easy to find if one doesn’t already know it exists.

I had seen the SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS doc. What I had really missed was this post that shows how to do zero downtime deployments with launcher: [image] Zero Downtime Upgrades dev We successfully performed the upgrade a couple of months ago. I’m posting our experi…

[image] Michael Brown: suspect that there are a very small number of users doing multi-container blue/green, but we would be welcome to suggestions on how to do that. The ansible script that dashboard.literatecomputing.com uses runs a rake task after the new container is launched to do the po…

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