How to upgrade Sitecore Managed Cloud Containers solutions to AKS 1.32


Description

The end of life of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 1.31 is November 2025. Sitecore Managed Cloud Containers solutions, based on AKS 1.31, need to be updated to a newer version that uses AKS 1.32. For more details on the AKS end of life and the consequences of deprecation refer to Microsoft documentation.

This article contains upgrade instructions for the Sitecore Managed Cloud Containers solution to the version that uses AKS 1.32.

Breaking Changes

No breaking changes have been identified.

Upgrade Instructions

Follow these steps to upgrade the Sitecore Managed Cloud Containers solution to the version that uses AKS 1.31:

  1. Download an upgrade package for the needed topology and a version from the storage. There is a list of available upgrade packages: 
    • Sitecore 10.1.0:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.1.0-r.0.1.547359.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.1.0-r.0.1.547359.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.1.1:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.1.1-r.0.1.547368.nupkg
      •  mcc.xm.upgrade.10.1.1-r.0.1.547368.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.1.2:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.1.2-r.0.1.547400.nupkg
      •  mcc.xm.upgrade.10.1.2-r.0.1.547400.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.1.3:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.1.3-r.0.1.547404.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.1.3-r.0.1.547404.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.2.0:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.2.0-r.0.1.547422.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.2.0-r.0.1.547422.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.2.1:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.2.1-r.0.1.547429.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.2.1-r.0.1.547429.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.2.2:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.2.2-r.0.1.547440.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.2.2-r.0.1.547440.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.3.0:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.3.0-r.0.1.547447.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.3.0-r.0.1.547447.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.3.1:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.3.1-r.0.1.547448.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.3.1-r.0.1.547448.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.3.2:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.3.2-r.0.1.547472.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.3.2-r.0.1.547472.nupkg
    • Sitecore 10.4.0:
      • mcc.xp.upgrade.10.4.0-r.0.1.547473.nupkg
      • mcc.xm.upgrade.10.4.0-r.0.1.547473.nupkg 

  2. Install the upgrade package to your solution (follow the guidelines for Sitecore 10.1, Sitecore 10.2, Sitecore 10.3 or Sitecore 10.4).
  3. After merging changes to Infrastructure repo, proceed as follows:
    • If the environment does not have DR installed, run the Infrastructure pipeline.
    • If the environment uses DR Managed Hot, run the Infrastructure pipeline with Synchronize primary to secondary checked.
    • If the environment uses DR Basic Cold Standby, run the Infrastructure pipeline with Update outage app checked.
  4. After merging changes to Application repo, run the Application pipeline.
  5. Run the check cluster upgrades pipeline.
  6. Run the cluster version upgrade pipeline (Kubernetes_version 1.32.0).
  7. If the environment uses DR Managed Hot, run the dr cluster version upgrade pipeline (Kubernetes_version 1.32.0).