[ixpmanager] Looking forward to version7

[Barry O'Donovan (INEX)]

Jan Ferré via ixpmanager wrote on 22/10/2024 09:39:
> I wonder if there will be some suggested way to move users from one 
> installation to another.
> 
> We're lacking so much as we do prefer to make a new installation of the 
> OS and the Manager - while keeping the old one alive. Then the database 
> should be moved to the new installation, and when tested, the IP-adress 
> will take over the old installation.

There's many (many) ways to do this.

I generally do an in place upgrade and I'll make the usual tutorial 
videos demonstrating that including an operating system upgrade from 
22.04 to 24.04.

IXP Manager is important but should not be critical. I.e. if IXP Manager 
is offline, everything should still run as-is. So declaring a 
maintenance window should be fine for most IXPs.

For rollbacks, you have a couple options but in the case of an in place 
OS plus IXP Manager upgrade, I think a virtual machine snapshot would be 
a good idea so you can just roll back.

> Last time we tried that, we created all attached customers and installed 
> a new set of users - with the result that very few actually connects. So 
> being able to move the database would really be good as IXP Manager 
> 5.7.0 is a bit old now.....

This will only work for small exchanges. When you have 10's or 100's of 
members this will not be feasible.


> And for the same reason as Pete, I will head for a new Debian too.

What did I miss that has annoyed people re Ubuntu 24.04? [besides the 
insane idea of renaming network interfaces]

  - Barry