Mandatory Updates

Source

Service Engineer

Stimulus

Desire to roll out mandatory updates to all service instances.

Environment

AppCat enabled Kubernetes converged cluster

Artifact

AppCat Framework

Response

Mandatory updates are rolled out immediately.

Response measure

Affected services are up-to-date with the mandatory update.

Rationale

Service engineers need to be able to roll out mandatory updates to all instances, regardless of their configured maintenance window. This allows for special kinds of updates, such as critical security patches.

Ideally mandatory updates are announced beforehand.