EUS-to-EUS update: OpenShift 4.8 -> 4.10

Due to fundamental Kubernetes design, all OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) updates between minor versions must be serialized. In other words, you must update through every version, from OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 to 4.9 and then to 4.10. You cannot update from OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 to 4.10 directly. More information about preparing to perform an EUS-to-EUS update is available in the documentation.

Layered product and components update

Since OpenShift Container Platform 4.6, Red Hat-provided Operator catalog sources are distributed using index images, which contain pointers to a set of Operator manifests that Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) can query to discover and install. The index image is updated automatically whenever a cluster upgrade occurred so that Operator Lifecycle Manager can pull the most current version of Operators from the updated catalog sources.

During an EUS-to-EUS update, layered products/OLM Operators may require updates either before or during an EUS-to-EUS update to stay compatible with the OpenShift Container Platform.

Those updates are offered and made available in Operator update channels that exist between all OpenShift Container Platform versions involved. Changing the update channel of layered products/OLM Operators may be required to get the feasible version in order to continue the EUS-to-EUS update process.

Prerequisites

• Review the document for Preparing to perform an EUS-to-EUS update.

• Review the release notes and product lifecycles for any layered products and OLM Operators.

  • Some may require updates either before or during an EUS-to-EUS update.
  • Changing the update channel of layered products/OLM Operators may be required in between the EUS update to get the feasible version in order to continue the EUS-to-EUS update process.

• Review the following table outlines life-cycled layered products and components with support status throughout OpenShift 4.8 EUS.

  • Update channel and current version details for each layered product and component are available in the respective link in the following table.