Add more information to agent v3 upgrade page.#1566
Add more information to agent v3 upgrade page.#1566nginx-seanmoloney wants to merge 3 commits intomainfrom
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| When upgrading to NGINX Agent v3, the installer automatically backs up all configuration files before proceeding. It also converts your v2 configuration to the v3 format, ensuring compatibility and preserving settings. | ||
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| If you are using a version **older than NGINX Agent v2.31.0**, you must stop NGINX Agent before updating: |
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You may want to include the syntax to get the version. I know you have it in a later step, but having it earlier would help the user settle any doubts about the version they have installed.
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| 1. Make a backup copy of the following locations to ensure that you can successfully recover if the upgrade does not complete | |||
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The document earlier explains that the upgrade process makes a backup of your config files for you. Yet, step one has the use make backup files themselves. Why both?
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The installer will only back up the nginx-agent.conf file not the /nginx-agent directory.
| - [Full list of v3 environment variables]({{< ref "/nginx-one-console/agent/configure-instances/configuration-overview/" >}}) | ||
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| Taking an example docker-compose file running a NGINX Agent v2 and update to v3. |
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It might be better to show the v2 ENV vars right beside the updated v3 names for them in a table, rather than showing multiple examples files.
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It might be a good idea to show an example on what each variable value should look like/its format etc
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Good point. Including whether or not to use quotes.
Co-authored-by: Daniel Edgar <d.edgar@f5.com>
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