Ubuntu 20.04 is nearing end of Support

Hi @Nishanth,

It will be upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 before 20.04 goes EOL as per the today's update from the R&D Team. Most likely at the 24R2 track and the 25R1 GA. 


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Dharmendra
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What technical implications will this have for existing IFS Cloud customers that upgrade form a earlier IFS Cloud version? Will infrastructure sizing requirements change with 24R2?

ETA for Ubuntu 22.04 is January 2025. This covers certification on the supported IFS Cloud tracks

Why not go crazy and, dare I suggest, validate on 24 LTS?!

​@JerkerHultqvist Thanks for the shared information. 

Hello,

Can our IT just perform an in place upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 on the Middle Tier servers?

Are there any consideration that need to be taken or any changes that need to be made to our IFS Cloud setup/config before or after the upgrade?

Please advise.

Thanks

​@SHAUN_KERSLAKE  You would need the latest infrastructure setup from IFS that you download from IFS described here 
 https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/ale/020_lifecycle/040_build_place_deliveries/040_applying-the-delivery-to-use-place/#artifact_download_functionality

The version to select is depending on the release you have.
Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS is supported in the latest infrastructure service updates per release that is: 24R2 SU2 , 24R1 SU8 , 23R2 SU14,  23R1 SU21, or later.

The service updates for each release are available as of January 16, 2025

 

Hi ​@JerkerHultqvist 

We are currently on 23R2 SU10, and plan to take SU14 once released.

I am aware of the process for downloading the delivery and deploying, along with taking the latest version of the Bootstrap and Bootstrap binaries files, but it is still not clear about the upgrade of the Ubuntu server. 

Can IT not just do a in place upgrade on the server which apparently is quite simple to take it up to 22.04?

The IFS Tech docs don’t mention anything about the Ubuntu server version and how this is deployed to the server.

Thanks

​@JerkerHultqvist I’ve now created the delivery for 23R2 SU14 but there is nothing in our build place - manage deployments specific to Ubuntu version upgrade.

We just have the following options:

Remote Bootstrap zip

Remote Bootstrap Binaries Zip

Remote PSO Deployment

Oracle Database Software Artifacts 

Please can you advise 

​@SHAUN_KERSLAKE  
Hi In a remote deployment you have to manage the maintenance (patching / updating ) of the Ubuntu server. This is not part of the IFS documentation.
When moving to a new Ubuntu release (from 20.04 to 22.04 ) the setup of the IFS infrastructure must be done on a updated server. So you cannot do an in place update to 22.04 . There is a section in the doc how to do this upgrade
https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/24r2/070_remote_deploy/040_upgrading_system/010_preparing_server/50_windows_managementserver/