What happened to gen 2 CLI downloads?

jay.janssen · May 4, 2020, 5:43pm

I can’t find anywhere to get the most recent gen2 download . The CLI from Mac homebrew and the convox doc points to 3.0.15 currently and I need 20200428134512

jay.janssen · May 4, 2020, 5:51pm

In case anyone else is looking:

github.com

convox/docs/blob/8b3dfeef207711d442295afdb08c88491b0869a4/docs/introduction/installation.md

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title: "CLI Installation"
order: 200
---

The `convox` command line tool makes building, configuring, scaling, and securing your apps easy.

Here are some of the highlights:

* `convox start` - A single command to start your development environment
* `convox deploy` - A single command to deploy your application to a Rack
* `convox rack update` - A single command to deliver API and infrastructure improvements to a Rack

You can install it via the command line:

## OS X

    $ curl -L https://convox.com/cli/macos/convox -o /tmp/convox
    $ sudo mv /tmp/convox /usr/local/bin/convox
    $ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/convox

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I’d be nice if gen2 didn’t completely evaporate from the official convox documentation for a while, especially since gen3 doesn’t seem to be a just drop in replacement.

ali · May 4, 2020, 6:41pm

@jay.janssen looking for this?

jay.janssen · May 4, 2020, 7:12pm

Sure, but was there something I missed that indicated that existed?

ali · May 4, 2020, 7:29pm

When you go to http://docs.convox.com at the bottom of the page there’s a link to v2 docs…

alon · May 10, 2020, 11:37am

Is there a guide about upgrading from v2 to v3?

ali · May 19, 2020, 1:27pm

@alon https://docs.convox.com/help/upgrading

nathan.f77 · September 20, 2020, 3:51pm

Has anyone performed a zero-downtime migration from gen 2 to gen 3?

The export feature is very cool, but I can’t really do that for my Postgres database and S3 buckets because they’re getting very large, and I also want to avoid any downtime. I would prefer to continue using these existing resources in my AWS account, and just configure the gen 3 app to use them through standard environment variables (e.g. DATABASE_URL).

My plan:

Set up a new gen 3 rack and get my app running
- Both apps would be pointing to the same RDS and Elasticache resources
Then once the gen 3 rack is running and tested, change my main DNS records to point to the gen 3 rack
Wait for ~24 hours or so
Shut down the old gen 2 rack once all traffic is going to gen 3

I’m just worried that I might run into problems when I go to delete the old gen 2 rack, since it’s attached to the RDS and S3 resources. These have deletion protection enabled, but is there any way I can safely “detach” these resources from my rack? I just want to leave them in the AWS account and continue using them.

rob.sharp · December 23, 2020, 9:29pm

I’m in a similar boat - the databases in my apps are quite large.

One of my considerations is that we have app-level resources. I’m not sure how to safely move them out of the stack and into V3.

As a result it may be simpler to create a fresh database in the V3 app and sync over the data.

I am considering using something https://aws.amazon.com/dms/ to sync databases across apps.

I will be tackling this next year so any input to how you approached the upgrade will be appreciated!