We have a set of 3x freeIPA servers that have outdated (everything) in a development/test environment that need to be updated.
It seems that 4.6.8-5.el7.centos.12 is the latest version available on CentOS 7?
We are at on the 3 servers: 4.5.4-10.el7.centos.4.4 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6
For the two 4.6.4 installs, that seems relatively simple upgrade as we would only be going to a different dot release and a simple "yum update ipa-server" should handle this? Is there any advisement for/against doing a full "yum update" on the entire system to get everything updated?
For the 4.5.4 system, is there much of a concern going straight from 4.5.4 to 4.6.8 straight? I assume the concern would be jumping major versions and going from say 4.5 to 4.9?
My current plan is to stop at CentOS 7.9 and latest FreeIPA 4.6 release on CentOS 7.9. But for my own knowledge if I was going to 4.10 wouldn't the recommendation path to upgrade to 4.10, to install CentOS Stream 9 on a new server, enroll it, make 4.10 the master and then remove the CentOS 7 instances?
-Kevin
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 6:29 PM Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users < freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
We have a set of 3x freeIPA servers that have outdated (everything) in a
development/test environment that need to be updated.
It seems that 4.6.8-5.el7.centos.12 is the latest version available on
CentOS 7?
We are at on the 3 servers: 4.5.4-10.el7.centos.4.4 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6
For the two 4.6.4 installs, that seems relatively simple upgrade as we
would only be going to a different dot release and a simple "yum update ipa-server" should handle this? Is there any advisement for/against doing a full "yum update" on the entire system to get everything updated?
For the 4.5.4 system, is there much of a concern going straight from
4.5.4 to 4.6.8 straight? I assume the concern would be jumping major versions and going from say 4.5 to 4.9?
My current plan is to stop at CentOS 7.9 and latest FreeIPA 4.6 release
on CentOS 7.9. But for my own knowledge if I was going to 4.10 wouldn't the recommendation path to upgrade to 4.10, to install CentOS Stream 9 on a new server, enroll it, make 4.10 the master and then remove the CentOS 7 instances?
Assuming you can't have a 4th server, Is it possible for you to have only 2 replicas for some time? If so, you can remove the 4.5.4 server, fully (cleanly?) upgrade it, add it back, set it as CA master, and repeat the procedure with the other servers.
As you are upgrading the whole OS, this would be more in line with the current recommendation (see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm... ).
Rafael
-Kevin
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Thanks Rafael.
I was hoping to do it in place if at all possible because where things get complicated is the 4.5.4 server is also the internal DNS server that everyone utilizes (we have multiple but people just use the 1 mainly). It really was their "main" server. I added the other two replicas a few years ago to make sure we had something. They contacted me and wanted help to upgrade everything so here I am. Making any modifications to it will probably make everything go heywire (or at least break DNS for everyone). That is unless I get it back immediately by
1. adding a 4th server 2. promoting the 4th server to master 3. decommission the 4.5.4 server 4. reassign the 4th server the same IP as the old 4.5.4 server? 5. upgrade rest of servers
Any thoughts? recommendations?
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 5:43 AM Rafael Jeffman rjeffman@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 6:29 PM Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users < freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
We have a set of 3x freeIPA servers that have outdated (everything) in a
development/test environment that need to be updated.
It seems that 4.6.8-5.el7.centos.12 is the latest version available on
CentOS 7?
We are at on the 3 servers: 4.5.4-10.el7.centos.4.4 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6
For the two 4.6.4 installs, that seems relatively simple upgrade as we
would only be going to a different dot release and a simple "yum update ipa-server" should handle this? Is there any advisement for/against doing a full "yum update" on the entire system to get everything updated?
For the 4.5.4 system, is there much of a concern going straight from
4.5.4 to 4.6.8 straight? I assume the concern would be jumping major versions and going from say 4.5 to 4.9?
My current plan is to stop at CentOS 7.9 and latest FreeIPA 4.6 release
on CentOS 7.9. But for my own knowledge if I was going to 4.10 wouldn't the recommendation path to upgrade to 4.10, to install CentOS Stream 9 on a new server, enroll it, make 4.10 the master and then remove the CentOS 7 instances?
Assuming you can't have a 4th server, Is it possible for you to have only 2 replicas for some time? If so, you can remove the 4.5.4 server, fully (cleanly?) upgrade it, add it back, set it as CA master, and repeat the procedure with the other servers.
As you are upgrading the whole OS, this would be more in line with the current recommendation (see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm... ).
Rafael
-Kevin
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 09:53:35 -0600 Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org wrote:
Thanks Rafael.
I was hoping to do it in place if at all possible because where things get complicated is the 4.5.4 server is also the internal DNS server that everyone utilizes (we have multiple but people just use the 1 mainly). It really was their "main" server. I added the other two replicas a few years ago to make sure we had something. They contacted me and wanted help to upgrade everything so here I am. Making any modifications to it will probably make everything go heywire (or at least break DNS for everyone). That is unless I get it back immediately by
- adding a 4th server
- promoting the 4th server to master
- decommission the 4.5.4 server
- reassign the 4th server the same IP as the old 4.5.4 server?
- upgrade rest of servers
Any thoughts? recommendations?
IMO they really should be using at least 2, if not all 3, of those as DNS servers. Then even if the primary is down, they should fail over to the secondary or tertiary (with the only symptom being slow resolving, so users will notice it, but will still be able to work). I've only noticed one thing in my network not failing over to secondary as it should, docker. If primary from resolv.conf is down, it will fail over to Google's 8.8.8.8 instead of your secondary. The other possibility is that you configure your firewall to DNAT all requests on UDP/TCP port 53 to the other, working server. But this will only work for requests coming from other networks which pass through your router. It's why I use lots of VLANs, I have all the IPA servers in their own VLAN so I could do this. But if you have other machines in the same network they won't be passing through the router so that won't be possible. The third possibility is that you set up DNAT with masquerading on the IPA server you will be upgrading, to translate packets to the other server, masquerade to make the reply packets go back through the same path (otherwise they may be dropped due to source IP mismatch). This will work for all requests including those not passing the router, but will only work while the OS is booted. So you can shut down IPA and it will work but if you need to restart the OS it will also go down.
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 5:43 AM Rafael Jeffman rjeffman@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 6:29 PM Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users < freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
We have a set of 3x freeIPA servers that have outdated (everything) in a
development/test environment that need to be updated.
It seems that 4.6.8-5.el7.centos.12 is the latest version available on
CentOS 7?
We are at on the 3 servers: 4.5.4-10.el7.centos.4.4 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6
For the two 4.6.4 installs, that seems relatively simple upgrade as we
would only be going to a different dot release and a simple "yum update ipa-server" should handle this? Is there any advisement for/against doing a full "yum update" on the entire system to get everything updated?
For the 4.5.4 system, is there much of a concern going straight from
4.5.4 to 4.6.8 straight? I assume the concern would be jumping major versions and going from say 4.5 to 4.9?
My current plan is to stop at CentOS 7.9 and latest FreeIPA 4.6 release
on CentOS 7.9. But for my own knowledge if I was going to 4.10 wouldn't the recommendation path to upgrade to 4.10, to install CentOS Stream 9 on a new server, enroll it, make 4.10 the master and then remove the CentOS 7 instances?
Assuming you can't have a 4th server, Is it possible for you to have only 2 replicas for some time? If so, you can remove the 4.5.4 server, fully (cleanly?) upgrade it, add it back, set it as CA master, and repeat the procedure with the other servers.
As you are upgrading the whole OS, this would be more in line with the current recommendation (see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm... ).
Rafael
-Kevin
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I forgot one more option. Since the first server is older than the other 2, you could not upgrade it but just shut it down. Follow the procedures: promote one of the two newer servers to CA renewal master, follow steps to decomission/remove the server from the domain, remove DNS SRV and A/AAAA records. Remove RUVs pointing to it. Then change the IP of that server's NIC to something else, and assign its IP(s) to one of the other 2 servers (add alias/es). So requests for DNS will then hit one of the remaining servers. Someone more knowledgeable can confirm if this is a good option - I personally did this and it worked (temporarily until I can change the DNS settings on all machines with static config).
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 03:44:35 +0100 Jernej Jakob via FreeIPA-users freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 09:53:35 -0600 Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org wrote:
Thanks Rafael.
I was hoping to do it in place if at all possible because where things get complicated is the 4.5.4 server is also the internal DNS server that everyone utilizes (we have multiple but people just use the 1 mainly). It really was their "main" server. I added the other two replicas a few years ago to make sure we had something. They contacted me and wanted help to upgrade everything so here I am. Making any modifications to it will probably make everything go heywire (or at least break DNS for everyone). That is unless I get it back immediately by
- adding a 4th server
- promoting the 4th server to master
- decommission the 4.5.4 server
- reassign the 4th server the same IP as the old 4.5.4 server?
- upgrade rest of servers
Any thoughts? recommendations?
IMO they really should be using at least 2, if not all 3, of those as DNS servers. Then even if the primary is down, they should fail over to the secondary or tertiary (with the only symptom being slow resolving, so users will notice it, but will still be able to work). I've only noticed one thing in my network not failing over to secondary as it should, docker. If primary from resolv.conf is down, it will fail over to Google's 8.8.8.8 instead of your secondary. The other possibility is that you configure your firewall to DNAT all requests on UDP/TCP port 53 to the other, working server. But this will only work for requests coming from other networks which pass through your router. It's why I use lots of VLANs, I have all the IPA servers in their own VLAN so I could do this. But if you have other machines in the same network they won't be passing through the router so that won't be possible. The third possibility is that you set up DNAT with masquerading on the IPA server you will be upgrading, to translate packets to the other server, masquerade to make the reply packets go back through the same path (otherwise they may be dropped due to source IP mismatch). This will work for all requests including those not passing the router, but will only work while the OS is booted. So you can shut down IPA and it will work but if you need to restart the OS it will also go down.
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 5:43 AM Rafael Jeffman rjeffman@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 6:29 PM Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users < freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
We have a set of 3x freeIPA servers that have outdated (everything) in a
development/test environment that need to be updated.
It seems that 4.6.8-5.el7.centos.12 is the latest version available on
CentOS 7?
We are at on the 3 servers: 4.5.4-10.el7.centos.4.4 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6
For the two 4.6.4 installs, that seems relatively simple upgrade as we
would only be going to a different dot release and a simple "yum update ipa-server" should handle this? Is there any advisement for/against doing a full "yum update" on the entire system to get everything updated?
For the 4.5.4 system, is there much of a concern going straight from
4.5.4 to 4.6.8 straight? I assume the concern would be jumping major versions and going from say 4.5 to 4.9?
My current plan is to stop at CentOS 7.9 and latest FreeIPA 4.6 release
on CentOS 7.9. But for my own knowledge if I was going to 4.10 wouldn't the recommendation path to upgrade to 4.10, to install CentOS Stream 9 on a new server, enroll it, make 4.10 the master and then remove the CentOS 7 instances?
Assuming you can't have a 4th server, Is it possible for you to have only 2 replicas for some time? If so, you can remove the 4.5.4 server, fully (cleanly?) upgrade it, add it back, set it as CA master, and repeat the procedure with the other servers.
As you are upgrading the whole OS, this would be more in line with the current recommendation (see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm... ).
Rafael
-Kevin
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Appreciate the response.
Unfortunately, I’ve got the hand i’ve been deal with. Our machines normally have 1-2 but if someone hardcodes a single DNS it’s probably going to the main server. The systems using DHCP would be fine…but for the ones that aren’t it will just all break.
No matter, to me this seems all very complicated. In my eyes it would be way more fragile than a single dot version upgrade. Is FreeIPA that sensitive going from 4.5 to 4.6?
Is FreeIPA really this fragile? I’ve honestly been nervous with this mess because I feel if something fails, I’ll never get it back running properly as it’s less like a “ok let’s reset and start over”.
Honestly what I feel like my quickest and best approach is to snapshot all of the IPA systems, pick one to run yum update on and see what happens. If it breaks, simply revert all of them back. Would this be a really bad idea?
-Kevin
On Feb 8, 2023, at 8:59 PM, Jernej Jakob jernej.jakob@abak.si wrote:
I forgot one more option. Since the first server is older than the other 2, you could not upgrade it but just shut it down. Follow the procedures: promote one of the two newer servers to CA renewal master, follow steps to decomission/remove the server from the domain, remove DNS SRV and A/AAAA records. Remove RUVs pointing to it. Then change the IP of that server's NIC to something else, and assign its IP(s) to one of the other 2 servers (add alias/es). So requests for DNS will then hit one of the remaining servers. Someone more knowledgeable can confirm if this is a good option - I personally did this and it worked (temporarily until I can change the DNS settings on all machines with static config).
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 03:44:35 +0100 Jernej Jakob via FreeIPA-users freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 09:53:35 -0600 Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org wrote:
Thanks Rafael.
I was hoping to do it in place if at all possible because where things get complicated is the 4.5.4 server is also the internal DNS server that everyone utilizes (we have multiple but people just use the 1 mainly). It really was their "main" server. I added the other two replicas a few years ago to make sure we had something. They contacted me and wanted help to upgrade everything so here I am. Making any modifications to it will probably make everything go heywire (or at least break DNS for everyone). That is unless I get it back immediately by
- adding a 4th server
- promoting the 4th server to master
- decommission the 4.5.4 server
- reassign the 4th server the same IP as the old 4.5.4 server?
- upgrade rest of servers
Any thoughts? recommendations?
IMO they really should be using at least 2, if not all 3, of those as DNS servers. Then even if the primary is down, they should fail over to the secondary or tertiary (with the only symptom being slow resolving, so users will notice it, but will still be able to work). I've only noticed one thing in my network not failing over to secondary as it should, docker. If primary from resolv.conf is down, it will fail over to Google's 8.8.8.8 instead of your secondary. The other possibility is that you configure your firewall to DNAT all requests on UDP/TCP port 53 to the other, working server. But this will only work for requests coming from other networks which pass through your router. It's why I use lots of VLANs, I have all the IPA servers in their own VLAN so I could do this. But if you have other machines in the same network they won't be passing through the router so that won't be possible. The third possibility is that you set up DNAT with masquerading on the IPA server you will be upgrading, to translate packets to the other server, masquerade to make the reply packets go back through the same path (otherwise they may be dropped due to source IP mismatch). This will work for all requests including those not passing the router, but will only work while the OS is booted. So you can shut down IPA and it will work but if you need to restart the OS it will also go down.
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 5:43 AM Rafael Jeffman rjeffman@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 6:29 PM Kevin Vasko via FreeIPA-users < freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
We have a set of 3x freeIPA servers that have outdated (everything) in a
development/test environment that need to be updated.
It seems that 4.6.8-5.el7.centos.12 is the latest version available on
CentOS 7?
We are at on the 3 servers: 4.5.4-10.el7.centos.4.4 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6 4.6.4-10-el7.centos.6
For the two 4.6.4 installs, that seems relatively simple upgrade as we
would only be going to a different dot release and a simple "yum update ipa-server" should handle this? Is there any advisement for/against doing a full "yum update" on the entire system to get everything updated?
For the 4.5.4 system, is there much of a concern going straight from
4.5.4 to 4.6.8 straight? I assume the concern would be jumping major versions and going from say 4.5 to 4.9?
My current plan is to stop at CentOS 7.9 and latest FreeIPA 4.6 release
on CentOS 7.9. But for my own knowledge if I was going to 4.10 wouldn't the recommendation path to upgrade to 4.10, to install CentOS Stream 9 on a new server, enroll it, make 4.10 the master and then remove the CentOS 7 instances?
Assuming you can't have a 4th server, Is it possible for you to have only 2 replicas for some time? If so, you can remove the 4.5.4 server, fully (cleanly?) upgrade it, add it back, set it as CA master, and repeat the procedure with the other servers.
As you are upgrading the whole OS, this would be more in line with the current recommendation (see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm... ).
Rafael
-Kevin
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