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This document is a step by step procedure for upgrading from Scylla 4.0 to Scylla Enterprise 2020.1, and rollback to 4.0 if required.
This guide covers upgrading Scylla from the following versions: 4.0.x to Scylla Enterprise version 2020.1.y on the following platform:
Debian 9
Note
Ubuntu 14 is not supported in the following versions of Scylla Enterprise 2019.1.0 and above
Note
Execute the following commands one node at the time, moving to the next node only after the upgrade procedure completed successfully.
Warning
If you are using CDC and upgrading Scylla 4.3 to 4.4, please review the API updates in querying CDC streams and CDC stream generations. In particular, you should update applications that use CDC according to CDC Upgrade notes before upgrading the cluster to 4.4.
If you are using CDC and upgrading from pre 4.3 version to 4.3, note the upgrading from experimental CDC.
A Scylla upgrade is a rolling procedure which does not require full cluster shutdown. For each of the nodes in the cluster, you will:
Check cluster schema
Drain node and backup the data
Backup configuration file
Stop Scylla
Download and install new Scylla packages
Start Scylla
Validate that the upgrade was successful
Apply the following procedure serially on each node. Do not move to the next node before validating the node is up and running with the new version.
During the rolling upgrade it is highly recommended:
Not to use new 2020.1 features
Not to run administration functions, like repairs, refresh, rebuild or add or remove nodes. See sctool for suspending Scylla Manager scheduled or running repairs.
Not to apply schema changes
Note
Before upgrading to 2019.1, make sure to use Scylla Monitoring 2.3 or newer, for the 2019.1 Dashboards.
Make sure that all nodes have the schema synched prior to upgrade, we won’t survive an upgrade that has schema disagreement between nodes.
nodetool describecluster
Before any major procedure, like an upgrade, it is recommended to backup all the data to an external device. In Scylla, backup is done using the nodetool snapshot command. For each node in the cluster, run the following command:
nodetool drain
nodetool snapshot
Take note of the directory name that nodetool gives you, and copy all the directories having this name under /var/lib/scylla to a backup device.
When the upgrade is complete (all nodes), the snapshot should be removed by nodetool clearsnapshot -t <snapshot>, or you risk running out of space.
for conf in $(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*server.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*conf.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*jmx.conffiles | grep -v init ); do sudo cp -v $conf $conf.backup-4.0; done
sudo service scylla-server stop
Before upgrading, check what version you are running now using dpkg -s scylla-server. You should use the same version in case you want to rollback the upgrade. If you are not running a 4.0.x version, stop right here! This guide only covers 4.0.x to 2020.1.y upgrades.
To upgrade:
Update the Scylla Enterprise Deb repo to 2020.1
Install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove scylla\*
sudo apt-get install scylla-enterprise
for conf in $(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*server.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*conf.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*jmx.conffiles | grep -v init ); do sudo cp -v $conf.backup-4.0 $conf; done
sudo systemctl daemon-reload (Ubuntu 16.04)
Answer ‘y’ to the first two questions.
sudo service scylla-server start
Check cluster status with nodetool status and make sure all nodes, including the one you just upgraded, are in UN status.
Use curl -X GET "http://localhost:10000/storage_service/scylla_release_version" to check scylla version.
Check scylla-server log (by journalctl _COMM=scylla) and /var/log/syslog to validate there are no errors.
Check again after 2 minutes, to validate no new issues are introduced.
Once you are sure the node upgrade is successful, move to the next node in the cluster.
Note
Execute the following commands one node at the time, moving to the next node only after the rollback procedure completed successfully.
The following procedure describes a rollback from Scylla Enterprise release 2020.1.x to Scylla 4.0.y. Apply this procedure if an upgrade from 4.0 to 2020.1 failed before completing on all nodes. Use this procedure only for nodes you upgraded to 2020.1
Scylla rollback is a rolling procedure which does not require full cluster shutdown. For each of the nodes rollback to 4.0, you will:
Drain the node and stop Scylla
Retrieve the old Scylla packages
Restore the configuration file
Restart Scylla
Validate the rollback success
Apply the following procedure serially on each node. Do not move to the next node before validating the node is up and running with the new version.
nodetool drain
sudo service scylla-server stop
Remove the old repo file.
sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/scylla.list
Update the Scylla deb repo to 4.0
install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove scylla\* -y
sudo apt-get install scylla
Answer ‘y’ to the first two questions.
for conf in $(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*server.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*conf.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/scylla-*jmx.conffiles | grep -v init ); do sudo cp -v $conf.backup-4.0 $conf; done
sudo systemctl daemon-reload (Ubuntu 16.04)
sudo service scylla-server start
Check upgrade instruction above for validation. Once you are sure the node rollback is successful, move to the next node in the cluster.