Upgrade Spinnaker to Armory Continuous Deployment

Upgrade your open source Spinnaker deployment to Armory Continuous Deployment for Spinnaker using Armory-extended Halyard.

Armory Continuous Deployment (Armory CD) requires a license. For more information, contact Armory.

Overview of upgrading Spinnaker to Armory Continuous Deployment

Armory Continuous Deployment for Spinnaker is installed with Armory-extended Halyard, very similarly to the way Open Source Spinnaker^TM is installed with Open Source Halyard. These are the key differences:

Armory-extended Halyard installs Armory’s enterprise distribution of Spinnaker; Open Source Halyard installs Open Source Spinnaker.
Armory versions are one major version ahead of Open Source. For example, Armory 2.18.x maps to Open Source Spinnaker 1.18.x.
Armory has an extra subcommand block hal armory (mapping to an armory block in your .hal/config), which controls Armory-specific features.

This guide differentiates between the two by referring to them as Armory and open source Spinnaker, respectively.

If you are currently on open source Spinnaker and interested in upgrading to Armory, you can easily upgrade if you used Halyard to install your Spinnaker cluster.

This guide assumes the following:

Spinnaker is currently running in Kubernetes
Spinnaker is configured with some form of persistent storage (Minio, S3, GCS, or AZS)
Spinnaker was installed with Halyard in one of these forms:
- Halyard is running locally on a workstation
- Halyard is running in a Docker container in Docker daemon (in Linux, Windows, or OSX)
- Halyard is running in a Kubernetes pod

Depending on where Halyard is currently running, the detailed installation instructions will be slightly different, but the high level process is the same:

Start Armory-extended Halyard in a Docker container with your open source Halyard configuration directories available to Armory Halyard.
Enter the Armory-extended Halyard container.
Update the Spinnaker version to use an Armory version. Recall that Armory versions are ahead of open source Spinnaker by one major version.
Apply your changes.

Halyard running locally on a workstation

If Halyard is running locally on your workstation, then perform the following steps:

Make copies of any directores used by Halyard. These include~.hal and ~.kube and potentially ~/.aws, ~/.config/gcloud, ~/.azure). You can mount these directly into Halyard, but it may be safer to operate on copies.
```
mkdir -p ~/armory/.config
cp -rpv ~/.hal ~/armory/
cp -rpv ~/.aws ~/armory/
cp -rpv ~/.kube ~/armory/
cp -rpv ~/.azure ~/armory/
cp -rpv ~/.config/gcloud ~/armory/.config
```
Omit any directories that do not apply to you. For example, if you do not use Azure, omit it.
Start Halyard as a Docker container in daemon mode, with your directories mounted in (add/remove volume mounts as applicable):
```
docker run --name armory-halyard --rm \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.hal:/home/spinnaker/.hal \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.kube:/home/spinnaker/.kube \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.aws:/home/spinnaker/.aws \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.azure:/home/spinnaker/.azure \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.config:/home/spinnaker/.config \
  -d \
  -u $(id -u) \
  index.docker.io/armory/halyard-armory:1.12.1
```
Omit any directories that do not apply to you. For example, if you do not use Azure, omit it.

The above specifies that Halyard will run as your local user id. Depending on how your Halyard daemon was initially run and what user id owns the various Halyard directories, you may need to specify some other user. For example, if user 1000 owns the .hal directory, replace “-u $(id -u)” with “-u 1000”
Exec into the Halyard container
```
docker exec -it armory-halyard bash
```
Update the version of Spinnaker
```
hal config version edit --version $(hal version latest -q)
```
This will use the latest stable version; If you want to use a different version, use hal version list to get a list of available versions. Then, run hal config version edit --version X.X.X to specify a version.
Apply your changes
```
hal deploy apply
```

Halyard running in a Docker container in Docker daemon

If Halyard is already running in a Docker container in your Docker daemon, you can do an in-place upgrade.

First, do a backup of your existing Halyard configuration. Exec into the Docker container, then run hal backup create.
Stop the Halyard docker container, and re-start it with the Armory-extended Halyard image (index.docker.io/armory/halyard-armory:1.12.1) instead of the open source Halyard image (gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/halyard:stable). Also, change the user id for Armory-extended Halyard to be 1000. For example, if you run the previous Docker image (open source Halyard) like this:
```
docker run --name halyard --rm \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.hal:/home/spinnaker/.hal \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.kube:/home/spinnaker/.kube \
  -d \
  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/halyard:stable
```
Then run Armory-extended Halyard like this:
```
docker run --name armory-halyard --rm \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.hal:/home/spinnaker/.hal \
  -v ${HOME}/armory/.kube:/home/spinnaker/.kube \
  -d \
  index.docker.io/armory/halyard-armory:1.12.1
```
Note the different Docker image and different container name.
Exec into the Halyard container:
```
docker exec -it armory-halyard bash
```
Update the version of Spinnaker:
```
hal config version edit --version $(hal version latest -q)
```
This will use the latest stable version. If you want to use a different version, use hal version list to get a list of available versions, and then hal config version edit --version X.X.X to specify a specific version.
Apply your changes
```
hal deploy apply
```

Halyard running in a Kubernetes pod

If Halyard is running in your Kubernetes cluster, either as a Kubernetes Deployment or a Kubernetes StatefulSet, then you can do an in-place upgrade:

First, update the image for your Halyard Deployment / StatefulSet from the open source Halyard image (gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/halyard:stable) to the Armory-extended Halyard image (index.docker.io/armory/halyard-armory:1.12.1)
Wait for the pod to start up.
Exec into your Kubernetes pod (insert your namespace and pod name, accordingly):
```
kubectl exec -it spinnaker bash
```
Update the version of Spinnaker:
```
hal config version edit --version $(hal version latest -q)
```
This will use the latest stable version. If you want to use a different version, use hal version list to get a list of available versions, and then hal config version edit --version X.X.X to specify a specific version.
Apply your changes:
```
hal deploy apply
```

Revert back to Spinnaker

If you want to go back to open source Spinnaker, you can repeat the same process as above with open source Halyard. Specifically, replace the Armory-extended Halyard image with the open source Halyard image, update Spinnaker version (from 2.x to 1.x), and run hal deploy apply

Troubleshooting

Depending on what version of Halyard / Armory-extended Halyard you’re moving to/from, there may be some fields in your Halyard configuration that are present in one version but not the other. You’ll see an Unrecognized field error like this:

$ hal deploy apply
- Get current deployment
  Failure
Problems in Global:
! ERROR Could not translate your halconfig: Unrecognized field
  "nodeSelectors" (class
  com.netflix.spinnaker.halyard.config.model.v1.node.DeploymentEnvironment), not
  marked as ignorable (14 known properties: "size", "initContainers",
  "updateVersions", "consul", "customSizing", "vault", "gitConfig", "location",
  "sidecars", "haServices", "accountName", "type", "hostAliases",
  "bootstrapOnly"])
at [Source: N/A; line: -1, column: -1] (through reference chain:
  io.armory.halyard.config.model.v1.node.ArmoryHalconfig["deploymentConfigurations"]->java.util.ArrayList[0]->com.netflix.spinnaker.halyard.config.model.v1.node.ArmoryDeploymentConfiguration["deploymentEnvironment"]->com.netflix.spinnaker.halyard.config.model.v1.node.DeploymentEnvironment["nodeSelectors"])

- Failed to get deployment name.

If you see the above error, go to the /home/spinnaker/.hal/config file in your Halyard container, search for the offending field, and remove the yaml block (comment it out or completely remove it).

For example, in the above case, find the deploymentEnvironment.nodeSelectors field, and remove it. Repeat as necessary.

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Last modified February 15, 2023: (e9a54629)