Prerequisites

You can use the Sitecore container upgrade procedure to upgrade your Sitecore XP installation if your environment fulfills the following prerequisites:

• Sitecore XP is deployed on a container cluster or to a computing infrastructure that uses the appropriate state configuration – Kubernetes, Docker or WDP/SAT/SIF.

• The source code of your installation can produce the relevant deployment and content packages – Docker images or WDP packages.

• You have created backups of your Sitecore databases.

  Important

  We strongly recommend that you upgrade copies of your production databases that contain all your data.

• Before you upgrade the databases, you have ensured that your SQL Server installation is compatible with the new version of Sitecore XP.

• The Sitecore databases should not have any active connections from the Web roles or from the xConnect worker roles.

• The upgrade assets must be able to access the SQL Server instance that hosts the Sitecore database over the Internet, a private domain network, or from a virtual Docker or Kubernetes network.

• There is a SQL Server user with permission to update the Sitecore database schemas and run SQL scripts against them, for example, the admin user.