Question -- upgrade path

[rchavez-neu]

a genera question: is there a preferred/recommended upgrade path when deploying the serverless-iiif via the AWS Serverless Application Repository?

Specifically, can an existing deploy be updated in place when using the AWS SAP, or does this method of deploy always deploy a new instance of serverless-iiif?

Whatever the case, it would be good to add a bit about upgrades and/or best practices for handling them in the documentation. Would be happy to help do that if needed.

[mbklein]

AWS SAR does a really good job upgrading an app stack. You just redeploy the app as if you're starting over, and give it the same application name. More detail is available in AWS' Updating Applications docs.

[mbklein]

The previous answer assumes you're trying to upgrade the same “flavor” of serverless-iiif (serverless-iiif <= 3.x / serverless-iiif-standalone or serverless-iiif-cloudfront 4.x) that you installed the first time. Switching from one to the other probably requires a full redeploy. Some documentation on that would be great and I'd welcome a pull request.

We're also looking to add a dedicated github.io site with better multi-page documentation at some point. The README is getting a little unwieldy and (IMO) intimidating.

[rchavez-neu]

Thank you @mbklein, I appreciate the info. I will give this a try in the coming weeks and put in a PR with some updated doc for the README once I get clear of some ongoing projects.

[mbklein]

@rchavez-neu We're actually very close to a new release, with a single-stream deploy and much more extensive documentation, so I would suggest holding off for a few days. The initial upgrade might be a little tricky, but it's going to make things much easier in the long run.

[mbklein]

@rchavez-neu The new version was released a few weeks ago. Please take a look and see if you have any further questions.