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Upgrading your Installation

As new enhancements are released by the Harness team, your installation will require updates to receive the new capabilities and templates. Additionally, there are some post-deployment tuning steps that will need to be done to adjust your implementation to suit your needs.

Upgrade your version of Harness Solutions Factory​

  1. Navigate to the Solutions Factory project within the Harness Platform Management organization of your Harness account

  2. Run the pipeline Mirror Harness Official solutions Factory Repos

    Note: This pipeline will replicate the current released versions and changes from the Harness ISE team into your local repositories stored within your organization Harness Platform Management

  3. Run the pipeline Manage Pilot Light to implement the first phase of the update. This will update the core resources used by HSF

  4. Run the pipeline Deploy Solutions Factory to finish the upgrade of the Solutions Factory engines.

  5. Run the pipeline Register IDP Templates to synchronize the Harness Template Library workflows into your IDP installation

Convert your HSF installation to use Kubernetes​

  1. Navigate to the Solutions Factory project within the Harness Platform Management organization of your Harness account
  2. Open the Infrastructure module and choose Workspaces
  3. Find and select the Harness Pilot Light workspace
  4. Navigate to the Variables tab and choose OpenTofu Variables
  5. Edit kubernetes_connector to provide an existing Kubernetes connector reference. Note: The connector will need to be scoped to the correct location where the connector exists. Prefix with account. or org. depending on its location.
  6. Optionally, edit kubernetes_namespace to modify the namespace into which the pods will be deployed.

Note: Additional details around the various options and variables can be found in the pilot-light directory of the Harness Solutions Factory repository

  1. Navigate to pipelines
  2. Run the pipeline Manage Pilot Light to apply the changes.

STOP: Changing the Kubernetes connector in this workspace only modifies it for the core resources and does not change the underlying connection for the engine pipelines. After the pipeline Manage Pilot Light executes, continue these steps

  1. Navigate to the Solutions Factory project within the Harness Platform Management organization of your Harness account
  2. Open the Infrastructure module and choose Workspaces
  3. Find and select the Harness Solutions Factory workspace
  4. Navigate to the Variables tab and choose OpenTofu Variables
  5. Edit kubernetes_connector to provide an existing Kubernetes connector reference. Note: The connector will need to be scoped to the correct location where the connector exists. Prefix with account. or org. depending on its location.
  6. Optionally, edit kubernetes_namespace to modify the namespace into which the pods will be deployed.

Note: Additional details around the various options and variables can be found in the solutions-factory directory of the Harness Solutions Factory repository

  1. Navigate to pipelines
  2. Run the pipeline Deploy Solutions Factory to apply the changes.