In-place rolling upgrade (Docker)
This example shows how to perform an in-place rolling upgrade of a v5.x cluster running on Docker.
It is recommended to read the following pages before continuing: For critical systems, it is recommended to:
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Before upgrading your cluster, ensure that it is in a healthy state. For example, this query checking for servers that are not hosting the databases they are expected to host should return no results:
If you have composite databases, they currently do not appear in And this one checking for databases that are not in their expected state should also return no results:
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The following example steps are based on the following pre-upgrade state:
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The environment has three cluster members located on three different servers a, b, c.
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Neo4j DBMS v5.x is running in a Docker container on each server with /data directory in the container mapped to /path/to/data on the host machine and the container is named
neo4j-dbms
. You can achieve this, for instance, by running the following command on each server:docker run -d \ --name=neo4j-dbms \ --volume=/path/to/data:/data \ neo4j:5.x-enterprise
Upgrade steps
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On server a, stop the container
neo4j-dbms
by running:docker stop neo4j-dbms
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Remove
neo4j-dbms
container:docker rm neo4j-dbms
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Start a v5.y container, named
neo4j-dbms
:docker run -d --name neo4j-dbms -v /path/to/data:data neo4j:5.y
The upgrade process takes place during startup.
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Gradually repeat the same steps on servers b and c.
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If you are using version 5.8 or before, you need to manually upgrade the
system
database. If you are using version 5.9 or later, you can skip this step, thesystem
database is automatically upgraded when safe to do so. RunCALL dbms.upgrade()
against the cluster using Cypher Shell or another Cypher client.
Monitor the logs
The neo4j.log file contains information on how many steps the upgrade will involve and how far it has progressed.
Neo4j logging output is written to files in the /logs directory. This directory is mounted as a /logs volume.
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