IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment 3.2 Fix Pack Quick Start Guide

Readme file for: IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment

Product Release: 3.2 Fix pack 1

Publication date: July 10, 2019

Last modified date: July 10, 2019

Contents

1. Overview
2. List of included fixes and changes
3. Online user documentation
4. Installing IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment
5. Upgrading IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment
6. List of files
7. Copyright and trademark information

Overview

This fix pack includes fixes to address reported and found problems that affect Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment.

List of included fixes and changes

The following updates are applied to the fix pack:

• Cloud Foundry updated to version 3.6. This version of Cloud Foundry has stack cflinuxfs3 (Ubuntu 18.04) as the default. Stack cflinuxfs2 should no longer be used since it is based on Ubuntu 14.04 with End of Support April 2019. Existing apps that were deployed with cflinuxfs2 should be redeployed with cflinuxfs3 to pick up the new stack.
• Liberty buildpack updated to version v3.32-20190523-1138
• NodeJS buildpack updated to version v3.27-20190530-0937
• Dotnet buildpack updated to version v2.3-20190609-2145
• cfp-cf-exporters Helm chart now supports firehose legacy mode for connection to IBM Cloud Private Platform Monitoring
• Translation updates

Online user documentation

For the complete, and most up-to-date IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment 3.2 user documentation, see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSBS6K_3.2.0/cloud_foundry/overview.html.

Installing IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment

For up-to-date information about installing IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment, see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSBS6K_3.2.0/cloud_foundry/installing/install_cfee.html.

Upgrading IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment

You can download and install or upgrade IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment.

Upgrade requires about 1 hour, not counting the time to download the files and load the images into the IBM Cloud Private Docker registry.

Download fix pack and load the Helm chart into IBM Cloud Private

1. Download the full installation file from Fix Central (8 GB).
2. If Docker CE isn't already installed, install Docker CE. See https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/.
3. Create an installation directory.
4. Move the downloaded file into the installation directory.

5. Unpack the IBM Certified Container by using the following command:

   tar xvf < downloaded file > .tgz
   

6. Load the IBM Certified Container into IBM Cloud Private by using the following command:

   scripts/load_cloudpak.sh -n < namespace >  -c < ICP hostname > -u < ICP User > -a ./ibm-cfee-installer-archive-3.2.1-*.tgz
   

Note: Default examples: -n default, -c mycluster.icp, -u admin

Upgrade the Helm release

1. From the IBM Cloud Private management console, go to Workloads > Helm Releases.
2. Locate and select the Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment chart.
3. Select the new version.
4. Select Upgrade.
5. Wait for the pod to show 1/1 running.

Upgrade Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment by using the Cloud Foundry deployment tool

1. From the IBM Cloud Private management console, go to Workloads > Helm Releases.
2. Locate and select the Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment chart.
3. Select Launch > deployment-tool.
4. In the Cloud Foundry deployment tool, select the States page.
5. Change all the states that you are running during upgrade to Ready. Typically all states should be changed to Ready.
6. Select the Configuration page and click the pencil icon to edit the configuration.
7. Select the Cloud Foundry tab.
8. Change the Installer action to Upgrade.
9. Select Save and exit. The configuration is verified.
10. Select Start deployment. The States page shows the upgrade status and log files. When all states change to the Succeeded state, the fix pack upgrade is complete.

List of files

Table 1. List of IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment files

Copyright and trademark information

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