best practice: proxmox keep up to date

[Markus Wolff]

Hello community,

what is your experience to keep up to date your proxmox cluster ?
Which is the best way to have no or short downtimes ?

BR Markus

 

[Klaus Steinberger]

I do the following:

-> set the ha group for a node to no-fallback (if not yet done)
-> migrate out all VM's via bulk migrate (view memory load of the servers)
-> apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade on the node
-> reboot
-> check if anything is working
-> unset no-fallback -> all VM's will migrate back (or do it by hand)

repeat that for every node.

there will be no downtime except for the very short unreachability of a vm during live migration

 

[Markus Wolff]

Hi Klaus,
thanks a lot for your answer. I done it similarly until now.
In which intervals you do it ? Once per month / week ?
BR Markus

 

[Klaus Steinberger]

On occasion, especially when security updates are outstanding. Usually once a month