Update Your Installation ⬆️

You can update your existing Hotsock CloudFormation stack to the latest Hotsock version in-place at any time without affecting currently-connected clients. You can generally expect full compatibility with your existing applications, but consider testing updates against an isolated pre-production installation to ensure there aren't any issues for critical systems.

Updates typically take 5 minutes or less.

Automatic updates

By default, installations auto-update daily sometime between 08:00-08:59 UTC. This can be configured by setting the CloudFormation "Automatically update installation" (AutoUpdateInstallationParameter via CLI) to enabled or disabled.

To change the time of day that updates run, set the CloudFormation "Auto-update hour of each day (UTC)" (AutoUpdateUTCHourParameter via CLI) to the desired hour. Although the performance impact of applying updates is minimal, it's best to choose a low-traffic time of day.

If there are no new releases since the last update, the update operation does not make any changes and there is zero performance impact.

Manually update installation

If automatic updates are disabled, you can update your installation to the latest version by invoking the "Hotsock Installation Updater" Lambda function manually.

Sign into your AWS account as a principal with administrative permissions and open the Lambda console and open "Functions" in the left sidebar.

Use the filter/search bar to find "Hotsock Installation Updater". Click the updater function for the installation you'd like to update.

Select the "Test" tab then click the "Test" button to trigger a manual stack update. If the test is successful, the update was initiated and will complete within 2-3 minutes. You can follow the stack update in the CloudFormation console.