Upgrading is the process of changing a system to a different, higher/newer version. It is similar to patching or updating (and for some software, may even be as simple as applying patches or updates, but is generally more involved and more comprehensive than the process for installing patches or updates.
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When does upgrading require a restart or disruption of services?
I'm using google compute engine with a single VM instance (machine type: e2-custom-2-5632/skylake) that needs an upgrade. Services are bumping up against limits and throttling. I'm trying to purchase a committed use discount and upgrade the VM with…
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Is there any way to auto upgrade Ansible roles?
Is there any way to upgrade Ansible version along with the playbooks which are written in older version of Ansible. Any kind of script which would read all the modules in the playbooks and recommend / update them to new versions

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How do you upgrade your openstack cluster?
I'm taking care of a small 3 nodes(compute/storage/control) openstack cluster installed via Ubuntu packages.
When upgrading between openstack major versions or OS updates that include rebooting the host, we need to plan downtime, which is fine for…

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Installation of postgresql-15 seems to fail
Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question - I am a developer not a sysadmin.
Since running apt-get update/upgrade on my ubuntu VM (Oracle VirtualBox) I cannot seem to get my postgresql database online. I believe this is may be because…

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Having an error while upgrading Ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04
Hi I am kinda new to Ubuntu. I am currently using Ubuntu 21.10 and trying to upgrade it to 22.04. When I enter
do-release-upgrade
It throws an error which is:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
For…

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How to avoid packages missing after upgrading Debian 10 to Debian 11?
I rarely do a server upgrade. Having said this I today upgraded Debian 10 to Debian 11 using these instructions which appeared pretty straightforward.
The issue was that after the upgrade some of the previously installed PHP packages were missing.…

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Domain Controller Upgrade 2019 to 2022
I have 3 Domain controller in my environment Windows Server 2019 Standard.
Primary DC : On-prem (FSMO role)
Secondary DC : On-prem
Tertiary DC : Cloud
I want to upgrade my domain environment to windows server 2022.I tried to direct upgrade from…

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migrate, upgrade (redmine, passenger, os, ruby) from (4.1.1, 5.3, 18.04, 2.6.6) to (5.0.1, 6.0.14, 20.04, 3.0.4)
I need to upgrade a number of things:
os (ubuntu) 18.04 => 20.04
ruby: 2.6.6 => 3.0.4
passenger: 5.3 => 6.0.14
redmine: 4.1.1 => 5.0.1
The one thing I can keep constant, at least for the migration, is the db, mysql 5.7
I've brought…

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Jenkins running as a service restarts by itself after upgrade from 2.303.2 to 2.319.3
I upgraded Jenkins (running as a service) from version 2.235.5 to 2.303.2 (by just replacing .war file and restarting the service), which seemed to work pretty stable. Before doing it, I upgraded Java from OpenJDK 8 to OpenJDK 11, which was the…

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Buster => Bullseye Upgrade: Don't install unwanted packages
I am in the process of upgrading to Debian Bullseye.
When doing apt full-upgrade I see that apache2 is going to be installed.
I do not want apache on my system, I have nginx already running.
How can I prevent this?
Is it safe to do apt-mark hold…

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Centos 7 OpenJDK Upgrade Confusion
Wanted to pick someone else’s brain on an issue I’m having and getting nowhere with.
We have an older Linux server in our environment and I am looking to patch our openjdk to the Latest versions but cannot seem to wrap my head around the process.
We…

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Upgrading Disk Space
I have a CentOS 7 VPS with 40GB of SSD space, I recently upgraded it to 80GB. How do extend the / partition? I don't want to reinstall Centos 7 and the Centos Web Panel as it was suggested to me that I do. I only want to extend the disk size.
Here…

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Node unable to leave cluster for eJabberd upgrade
Environment
ejabberd version: 20.04
Erlang version: Erlang (SMP,ASYNC_THREADS)(BEAM) emulator version 9.2
OS: Linux (Debian)
Installed from: source
Errors from crash.log
2022-02-08 22:42:45 =CRASH REPORT====
crasher:
initial call:…

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Skipping acquire of configured file ‘multiverse/binary-arm64/Packages’ as repository ‘/mongodb-org/4.0 InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture arm64
I’m trying to upgrade Mongo from 3.6.6 to 5.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.6, running on an AWS EC2 instance.
I’ve gotten up until 4.2 -> 4.4, and am now using this tutorial:
https://docs.mongodb.com/v4.4/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
I’ve done the…

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Can windows server be upgraded from a mounted iso?
I have a windows 2012 server raw metal dedicated server hosted in a datacenter. (OVH)
It appears I can mount an ISO to be viewed as a CD with a drive letter, but if I mount a server 2016 or 2019 install media, if I start upgrading for that, do I…

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