Failing to upgrade spring-cloud-gateway package in TAP (Tanzu Application Platform)

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Platform

Issue/Introduction

Users use tanzu package installed update tap -p tap.tanzu.vmware.com -v NEW_VERSION --values-file tap-values.yaml -n tap-install command to upgrade the packages in TAP (Tanzu Application Platform). However, this command will not be able to upgrade the self-managed packages. For instance, spring-cloud-gateway is one of the self-managed packages and you would observe the below error messages when failing to upgrade this package. 

$ tanzu package installed list -n tap-install 

  NAME                         PACKAGE-NAME                                    PACKAGE-VERSION            STATUS
  ......
  spring-cloud-gateway         spring-cloud-gateway.tanzu.vmware.com           2.1.8                      Reconcile failed
  ...... 

$ kubectl describe packageinstall  spring-cloud-gateway -n tap-install
......
Status:
  Conditions:
    Message:               Expected to find at least one version, but did not (details: all=2 -> after-prereleases-filter=2 -> after-kapp-controller-version-check=2 -> after-constraints-filter=0)
    Status:                True
    Type:                  ReconcileFailed
  Friendly Description:    Reconcile failed: Expected to find at least one version, but did not (details: a...
  Last Attempted Version:  2.1.8
  Observed Generation:     1
  Version:                 2.1.8
Events:                    <none>

Resolution

Please upgrade the self-managed package separately using the below procedure:

1. Run tanzu package available list -A or tanzu package available list spring-cloud-gateway.tanzu.vmware.com --namespace tap-install to retrieve the upgradable version. 

2. Run tanzu package install INSTALLED-PACKAGE-NAME --package AVAILABLE-PACKAGE-NAME --version AVAILABLE-PACKAGE-VERSION [FLAGS] to upgrade the self-managed package. 

3. Run tanzu package installed list -n tap-install to confirm the package was upgraded successfully.