DX O2 26.1: F5 NGINX Hotfix Application and Backup Guidance

Products

• DX Operational Observability

Issue/Introduction

We are migrating to the F5 NGINX Ingress Controller to solve the retirement of Ingress NGINX

We are planning to apply 26.1 f5-nginx HOTFIX  and we need recommendations regarding

1) How to gracefully shutdown the DX O2 on premises to perform a full backup.

2) Any additional recommendation

 

Environment

DX O2 OnPremise

Resolution

1) Step by step instructions how to migrate Ingress NGINX Controller to F5 NGINX Ingress Controller, see Techdocs DX O2 OnPrem Upgrade section

2) There is not need to restart any dxo2 service, the script will scale down and up all the required dxo2 services or pods.

3) Regarding DX O2 backup, you have the below options:

Option 1) Follow DX O2 OnPrem backup procedure

Option 2) If you have the possibility to perform full snapshots backup of the vms:

-Stop all services using ./dx-admin.sh stop,

-Perform the entire backup of the k8s cluster setup

-Star all services using ./dx-admin.sh start