Remotely Upgrade Multiple Photon OS Machines With Photon Management Daemon
After you have a configured the Photon Management Daemon (PMD) on multiple machines, you can remotely upgrade any installed package on these machines.
Upgrade process uses copenapi_cli
that is supported from Photon Management Daemon. You can initiate the upgrade process from any machine that has Photon Management Daemon installed.
Prerequisites
- Have installed Photon Management Daemon on the clients.
Procedure
To initiate remote upgrade, log in to a Photon OS machine over SSH to install the Photon Management Daemon CLI.
# tdnf install pmd-cli
Edit the
copenapi_cli
spec files so that you can specify the machines you want to upgrade and credentials to be used.Edit the
.netrc
file to specify machines to be upgraded and credentials for the PMD service.# vi ~/.netrc
In the file, enter the IP addresses for the machines and administrative credentials, save and close the file.
# machine <IP-address> login <pmd-administrative-user> password <pmd-administrative user-password>
(Optional) Get the location of the
restapispec.json
file.# cat ~/.copenapi
This command returns
apispec=/root/restapispec.json
as path for the spec file.Edit the
restapispec.json
file to enter the IP address of the machine to be upgraded.# vi /root/restapispec.json
Change the
host
value to the IP address or the hostname of the machine, leave the port number, and save and close the file."host":"<ip-address>:2081"
Initiate the upgrade, in this example of the
sed
package and wait for the command to complete.Specify
-k
to force blind trust of certificates and-n
to use the credentials from the.netrc
file.# copenapi_cli pkg update --packages sed -kn
(Optional) Verify that the package was upgraded successfully.
Log in to the machine that was upgraded over SSH.
List the installed version of the
sed
package.# tdnf list installed sed