Manage Operator

This guide is for both the Armory Operator and the Spinnaker Operator. Armory Continuous Deployment and Spinnaker configuration is the same except for features only in Armory Continuous Deployment. Those features are marked .

Upgrade the Operator

Do not manually change Docker image tags in your existing manifest files. Operator computes the compatible Halyard version, so manually updating image tags is an unsupported upgrade method and may cause issues.

Use the kubectl replace command to replace your Operator deployment. See the kubectl replace docs for an explanation of this command.

1. Download the Operator version you want to upgrade to:

   Armory Operator

   In the following command, replace <version> with the specific version or “latest” for the most recent version.

   bash -c 'curl -L https://github.com/armory-io/spinnaker-operator/releases/download/<version>/manifests.tgz | tar -xz'
   

   Spinnaker Operator

   In the following command, replace <version> with the specific version or “latest” for the most recent version.

   bash -c 'curl -L https://github.com/armory/spinnaker-operator/releases/download/<version>/manifests.tgz | tar -xz'
   

2. Update CRDs across the cluster:

   kubectl replace -f deploy/crds/
   

3. Update the Operator:

   kubectl -n spinnaker-operator replace -f deploy/operator/cluster
   

Uninstall the Operator

Uninstalling the Operator involves deleting its deployment and SpinnakerService CRD. When you delete the Operator CRD, Kubernetes deletes any installation created by Operator. This occurs because the CRD is set as the owner of the resources, so they get garbage collected.

You can remove this ownership relationship so that Armory Continuous Deployment is not deleted when deleting the Operator by removing Operator ownership of resources.

Remove Operator ownership of Armory Continuous Deployment resources

Run the following script to remove ownership of Armory resources, where NAMESPACE is the namespace where Armory Continuous Deployment is installed:

#! /usr/bin/env bash
NAMESPACE=
for rtype in deployment service
do
    for r in $(kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get $rtype --selector=app=spin -o jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.name}')
    do
        kubectl -n $NAMESPACE patch $rtype $r --type json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/metadata/ownerReferences"}]'
    done
done

After the script completes, delete the Operator and its CRDs from the Kubernetes cluster:

kubectl delete -n <namespace> -f deploy/operator/<installation type>
kubectl delete -f deploy/crds/

Help resources

• Armory Operator and Armory Continuous Deployment: contact Armory Support or use the Spinnaker Slack #armory channel.
• Spinnaker Operator and Spinnaker: Spinnaker Slack #kubernetes-operator channel.