Upgrading from AMR Beta to AMR GA release

This topic tells you how to upgrade from Tanzu Application Platform 1.6 to Tanzu Application Platform 1.7 or later with Artifact Metadata Repository (AMR) beta enabled. Because AMR is not enabled by default in Tanzu Application Platform 1.6, most users will not encounter this scenario. To upgrade without AMR, see Supply Chain Security Tools - Store - Upgrading.

Known issues and workarounds

Because AMR was in beta in Tanzu Application Platform 1.6, there are breaking changes when upgrading to Tanzu Application Platform 1.8. This section lists all the known issues and workarounds.

Configuration Changes

In the AMR Beta release, most of the AMR configurations are in-line with metadata_store section inside values.yaml file. You must remove metadata_store.amr from the values.yaml file.

Remove metadata_store.amr from the values file.

metadata_store:
  amr:
    deploy: true
    graphql:
    app_service_type: "ClusterIP"

Remove amr.deploy_observer: true from the values file
Remove Alias from the amr.observer.location configmap
```
location: |
  alias: my-cluster
```

Database changes

In the AMR Beta release, the Alias field was introduced in the Location table. The Alias field is removed in Tanzu Application Platform 1.8. To drop this field from Tanzu Application Platform 1.8:

Connect to the Postgres database.

Run the following SQL command:

ALTER TABLE artifact_locations DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS alias;