[NIFI-3663] Utility to automate upgrade/downgrade of NiFi

• Type: New Feature
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Tools and Build
• Assignee: Yolanda M. Davis
• Reporter: Yolanda M. Davis
• Created: 30/Mar/17 13:57
• Updated: 20/Aug/19 14:18

Description

Upgrading NiFi either in standalone mode or within a cluster currently requires several manual steps to ensure that an existing NiFi node is properly migrated to a new version. Also there is no support for "rolling upgrade" which would allow upgrade of a NiFi cluster to occur without a full outage of the cluster. This limits a clusters ability to provide a highly available environment for flow execution and also requires more coordination to plan and schedule for full outages.

Having a utility (or a set of utilities) that can support a more seamless move to a new version of NiFi (either in rolling or non-rolling fashion) would help to further support automation of configuration and management for NiFi. Such a utility could also be leveraged by more enterprise level configuration management frameworks (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt) to coordinate upgrades across multiple nodes or clusters within an environment.

Sub-Tasks

• Create Node Manager & Notification Utilities: Resolved
• Create File Manager & Config Migration Utilities: Resolved
• Create Upgrade Utility: Open
• Add a 'status' operation to the Node Manager to determine node availability: Resolved