Upgrading to Content Hub 8.x-2.x through the Console¶

Stage 0: Performs an audit of the current platform¶

What does it do?

• Prompts for credentials for the Acquia Content Hub subscription

• Ensures that the Acquia Lift module version is 4.x, if you have Acquia Personalization installed

• Audits the following:

  • Acquia Content Hub 8.x-1.x hook implementations

  • Missing UUIDs

  • Known issues with temporary files

  • The depcalc module

  • Synchronization of Acquia Content Hub settings overwrites

  • Existence of stream wrappers on this site

  • Valid SSL certificates

What if something goes wrong?

• Ensure that your platform has been set correctly by running the following command:

  /vendor/bin/commoncli platform:describe
  

• If any of the audits find a problem, it is important to fix the issue. Some issues can be fixed by CHUC while others will need to be fixed manually. These are known problems that the Content Hub Console is attempting to prevent prior to the Acquia Content Hub 2.x upgrade.

Stage 1: Generates service and database backups¶

What does it do?

• Generates database backups of the sites in a platform

• Generates a service backup

What if something goes wrong?

• Database backups are generated using the Cloud Platform and Site Factory API. If there’s a problem encountered while generating the database backups, contact your TAM or Acquia Support.

• If a problem happens during the generation of Content Hub Service backups, contact Acquia Support.

Stage 2: Purges subscription and delete webhooks¶

What does it do?

• Purges all of the entity data in the Content Hub service. Entity data will be re-exported in a later stage of the upgrade process.

What if something goes wrong?

• If the Service has no entities, you may see a message that the purge failed. To fix this, export at least one entity in Acquia Content Hub 8.x-1.x and retry this step.

• If the subscription cannot be purged due to another error, file a Support ticket with Acquia.

Stage 3: Prepares upgrade command¶

What does it do?

• Prepares the sites to be upgraded.

What if something goes wrong?

• Ensure that the platform details are correct.

Manual step: Deploy Acquia Content Hub 8.x-2.x to the platform¶

Run the following composer commands on your 8.x-1.x codebase to get the necessary modules installed:

composer remove acquia/content-hub-php
composer remove depcalc
composer remove drupal/acquia_contenthub
composer require drupal/acquia_contenthub:~2
composer require drupal/diff

After running the composer commands above, commit the code to your Acquia-hosted repository and deploy the branch.

What does it do?

• This is a manual step to deploy a Acquia Content Hub 8.x-2.x branch to the codebase on each site in the platform.

• The Console will tell you to perform this step, but it cannot do it for you.

What if something goes wrong?

• Follow the normal deployment workflow set forth by your development team.

• Failures in code deployments should be discussed with your technical teams and/or Acquia Support.

Stage 4: Runs publisher upgrade command¶

What does it do?

• Upgrades all of the publisher sites by running a drush command.

What if something goes wrong?

• Ensure that your platform has been set correctly.

Stage 5: Creates scheduled jobs for publisher/subscriber queues¶

What does it do?

• This creates the scheduled jobs (cron jobs) for Content Hub operations on the given platform.

• Scheduled jobs are created using the Cloud Platform or Site Factory APIs.

What if something goes wrong?

Contact Acquia Support if there’s a failure to create the scheduled job.

Stage 6: Validates the publisher queues¶

What does it do?

• This checks to see whether queues on the sites have correct counts.

• It also checks to ensure that the status of exported entities in the publisher tracking table are correct.

What if something goes wrong?

• If the publisher has a lot of entities to export then it will keep waiting until all the entities have been published and the count reaches zero. Only then it will proceed to the next step. If it can’t continue, it means that the publisher queue is running. If the publisher queue is not running, then you must manually check it and resolve the issues.

Stage 7: Runs subscriber upgrade command¶

What does it do?

• Upgrades all of the subscriber sites by running a drush command.

What if something goes wrong?

• Ensure that your platform has been set correctly.

Stage 8: Enables Unsubscribe module if there are imported entities with local changes/auto-update disabled¶

What does it do?

• Ensures that if entities were “disconnected” from Content Hub in 1.x, the same entities will stay “disconnected” in 2.x.

What if something goes wrong?

• Contact the Content Hub team if there’s a failure during this stage.

Stage 9: Validates the upgraded subscription¶

What does it do?

• This validates that the queues and the subscriber tracking table appear to be correct.

What if something goes wrong?

• Manually correct the database tables.

Stage 10: Validates that default filters are attached to webhooks and all filters have been upgraded¶

What does it do?

• Every Content Hub webhook has a default filter to prevent all content from importing. This ensures that the filter is set.

• This also does a check to ensure that the database filters in 1.x have all been upgraded to cloud filters in 2.x.

What if something goes wrong?

• Filters can be manually created if needed.

• Contact the Content Hub team if there are other issues.

Stage 11: Validates the interest list¶

What does it do?

• This validates that the entities in the tracking table(s) on the sites matches the interests in the service (which is the Content Hub Service’s way to know what entities are of interest to a webhook).

What if something goes wrong?

• If there’s a mismatch, it can be manually corrected via drush commands.

• Contact the Content Hub team as this should be a simple audit.