Maintenance - extrimian/documentation GitHub Wiki

Stay in control and up to date

RSKEC puts you in control of when you apply upgrades to your Blockchain runtime, as well as 3rd Party services in your environments and network.

We test and bundle a collection of versions into a release.

We periodically send new updates. You are still able to update to the new version. We use a chain-wide rolling update to reduce downtime where necessary.

We do require you to stay current on maintenance to ensure we fully test migration combinations, as we look forward to implementing key infrastructure changes.

For this reason, we schedule baseline upgrades to move everybody forwards to a uniform baseline. Customers will be notified via email and in our application UI for new updates.

Rolling upgrades

When you initiate an upgrade, we update each node and service in the environment automatically.

For the blockchain nodes, we do this one-by-one, restarting each node in turn to avoid downtime of the network overall.

The upgrade restart is similar to our standard high-availability failover capabilities and takes approximately some minutes per node or service.

Release notes

We publish release notes for every release-version, so you can see the version updates, as well as a list of any issues fixed as part of the maintenance