Upgrading and Migrating to Container model

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Hi team.

Hope you're all doing great over here.

We have a Full blown Connections 7.0 installed on RHEL 7.9 servers (DB2, Docs, Docs Viewer, Forums, Surveys, etc., distributed along several servers).

It's SSO integrated with an also Full blown Domino 12 environment, running in RHEL 8.2 server (also integrated with Verse for greater Verse experience).

It's SSO integrated with an also Full blown Sametime 11.6 environment (Proxy and Community only), running in RHEL 8.2 server.

Our Connections have several Gigs of data, among Files, Communities, Files on Communities, Blogs, etc.

We are considering upgrading to Connections 8.0, but we are also thinking of switching to the Kubernetes delivered version.

Is this supported and/or recommended? Which would be the recommended or suggested steps and procedures to follow in order to perform such upgrade / migration, keeping our data and current integrations?

Sincerely,

Elvis.

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Hi Elvis,

There is no way currently to go completely containerized. With Connections 7 and 8 on WebSphere you can install additionally Kubernetes and Component Pack to get the new Opensearch based Metrics, the tailored experience wizard and customizer (and some more).

So, you can do Connections 8.0 on WebSphere only, or WebSphere + Kubernetes.

Cheers

Christoph