Updating Flow Production Tracking using the Enterprise Console
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This article describes how to upgrade Flow Production Tracking Enterprise Docker instances using the Enterprise Console.
Glossary
Cluster - A set of servers composing a Flow Production Tracking instance.
Node - A single host within a cluster.
Flow Production Tracking Instance - Refers to your Flow Production Tracking site and all its components, e.g., “Flow Production Tracking.yourstudio.com”.
Flow Production Tracking Package - Package containing the Docker image for a given release of Flow Production Tracking.
SEC - Flow Production Tracking Enterprise Console.
Planning the update
Updating Flow Production Tracking is an operation that requires downtime. That operation must therefore be planned carefully.
- Find out how much downtime will be required for the production upgrade.
- Plan your staging upgrade. Make sure to have a regression testing pass, stressing out all your important workflows and automation scripts, between staging and production upgrades.
- Highly consider syncing your staging site with a fresh copy of the production database before updating staging. This will allow you to validate that the data migrations are compatible with your data set. This will also allow you to get a precise estimate of the downtime required for the production update.
- Plan for the worst. Make sure you understand what can go wrong, and how to rollback if something goes wrong.
Obtaining Flow Production Tracking
The latest Flow Production Tracking packages are available from https://shotgrid.autodesk.com/ - learn more about downloading packages here. They must be downloaded and copied to the nodes on the cluster that will be running the respective containers.
Assisted update
The Flow Production Tracking Enterprise Console will guide Flow Production Tracking Administrators through the recommended update workflow. The steps are outlined inside SEC, under the Orchestration section for each cluster.
Please see “Flow Production Tracking Enterprise Console assisted updated” for more detailed information about each step in the assisted update.