From 2.x

If you wish to migrate from older versions of Jenkins X to v3 we recommend spinning up a new cluster for v3 and then incrementally moving projects from the old cluster to the new cluster.

This might sound heavy handed but the issue with working with multiple versions of a number of charts like lighthouse and tekton is that they use cluster scoped resources (CRDs and clusterrole resources for example) which can compete with each other. e.g. installing a new version of a chart may well break an old installation.

So its safer to spin up a new cluster and install v3 there.

Once you have a new cluster you can just import projects into the new cluster via jx project import

You can then test the projects work fine in the new v3 cluster. If they do you can remove them from the old cluster via jx delete application.

Converting pipelines

You can follow the guide on migrating pipelines individually via jx pipeline convert command to convert pipelines in a repository:

jx pipeline convert 

Batch importing

To batch import lots of projects from the old cluster:

• git clone the new cluster’s git repository (with the helmfile.yaml file inside) and cd into the directory
• verify you are in the correct git clone by running this command

ls -al helmfile.yaml

• you should see the helmfile.yaml file from the v3 installation

• now connect to your old Jenkins X cluster. Using jx v2 you can use jx ctx to switch contexts or refer to your cloud providers documentation on how to switch kubectl to point to different clusters

• verify you can see the old source repositories via:

kubectl get sourcerepository

• now run the jx gitops repository export command

• the local file .jx/gitops/source-config.yaml should have been modified with the exported repositories

• review the changes to this file - remove any projects you don’t want to import

• now git commit this file:

git add .jx
git commit -a -m "fix: import repositories"
git push 

• connect to your new cluster
• you can watch the setup pipeline run via jx admin log
• once complete you should see the imported projects:

kubectl get sourcerepository

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