Configuration

Overview

This section explains how to completely configure a WorkflowGen upgrade container. Some options are configured as environment variables and others are passed directly to the entry point script. It is available as Linux and Windows images.

This image is not designed to be taken as a base image.

Environment variables

In the case of the upgrade image, the environment variables are arguments that you should not have to change often when upgrading WorkflowGen. That way, you can easily pass a file that defines those variables and reuse it between runs. Here's the list of available environment variables with their descriptions:

Variables

Description & values

WFGEN_UPGRADE_UPDATE_PACKAGES_PATH

Default value:

  • Windows: C:\wfgen\updatepackages

  • Linux: /mnt/updatepackages

WFGEN_UPGRADE_UPDATE_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME

The name of the update package archive to pick in the update packages path for this upgrade. If no value is provided, <ToVersion>/update.zip will be picked where <ToVersion> is passed as an argument to the container.

WFGEN_DATABASE_CONNECTION_STRING

Required variable

The connection string to the WorkflowGen database. The user passed must have the rights to modify the schema of the database.

WFGEN_UPGRADE_EXCLUDE_FILES

Globally excluded files when copying App_Data files from the update package to your App_Data volume, and when copying wfapps files from the update package to your wfapps volume. The elements in this list must be comma-separated (e.g.myfile.txt,myfile2.txt).

✏️ Notes:

  • There's no distinction between files and folders in the Linux version.

  • Excluded files in Windows version are recursive.

  • You can't use sub-paths in the Windows version.

WFGEN_UPGRADE_EXCLUDE_FOLDERS

Globally excluded folders when copying App_Data files from the update package to your App_Data volume, and when copying wfapps files from the update package to your wfapps volume. The elements in this list must be comma-separated (e.g.myfolder,myfolder).

✏️ Notes:

  • There's no distinction between files and folders in the Linux version.

  • Excluded folders in the Windows version are recursive.

  • You can't use sub-paths in the Windows version.

WFGEN_UPGRADE_APPDATA_EXCLUDE_FILES

Globally excluded files when copying App_Data files from the update package to your App_Data volume. The elements in this list must be comma-separated (e.g.myfile.txt,myfile2.txt).

✏️ Notes:

  • There's no distinction between files and folders in the Linux version.

  • Excluded files in the Windows version are recursive.

  • You can't use sub-paths in the Windows version.

WFGEN_UPGRADE_WFAPPS_EXCLUDE_FILES

Globally excluded files when copying wfapps files from the update package to your wfapps volume. The elements in this list must be comma-separated (e.g.myfile.txt,myfile2.txt).

✏️ Notes:

  • There's no distinction between files and folders in the Linux version.

  • Excluded files in the Windows version are recursive.

  • You can't use sub-paths in the Windows version.

WFGEN_UPGRADE_APPDATA_EXCLUDE_FOLDERS

Globally excluded folders when copying App_Data files from the update package to your App_Data volume. The elements in this list must be comma-separated (e.g. myfolder,myfolder).

✏️ Notes:

  • There's no distinction between files and folders in the Linux version.

  • Excluded folders in the Windows version are recursive.

  • You can't use sub-paths in the Windows version.

WFGEN_UPGRADE_WFAPPS_EXCLUDE_FOLDERS

Globally excluded folders when copying wfapps files from the update package to your wfapps volume. The elements in this list must be comma-separated (e.g. myfolder,myfolder).

✏️ Notes:

  • There's no distinction between files and folders in the Linux version.

  • Excluded folders in the Windows version are recursive.

  • You can't use sub-paths in the Windows version.

Script parameters

Script parameters define options to pass as arguments directly to the upgrade container. These arguments are more likely to be defined each time you run the container, which is why they are not in environment variables. Here's the help file of the entrypoint script. It describes all of the parameters and their groupings, and provides a few examples:

NAME
    /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.ps1
    
SYNOPSIS
    Entrypoint script for the upgrade container.
    
    
SYNTAX
    /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.ps1 -FromVersion <String> -ToVersion <String> [-RemainingArgs <Object>] [-Offline] [<CommonParameters>]
    
    /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.ps1 -Command -RemainingArgs <Object> [<CommonParameters>]
    
    /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.ps1 -Help [<CommonParameters>]
    
    
DESCRIPTION
    This script will merge files for the App_Data and wfapps directory between
    the upgrade package of the destination version and the current installation
    ones (passed as volumes).
    
    It will also launch the required SQL migration scripts in order from lowest
    to highest version. Make sure to use a SQL account that has the proper 
    rights to modify the database tables.
    
    The "Files", "LogFiles" and "Ws" subfolders in App_Data are always ignored.
    You don't have to specify them in the exclusion environment variables.
    

PARAMETERS
    -FromVersion <String>
        The current version of WorkflowGen. The starting version of the 
        migration.
        
        Required?                    true
        Position?                    named
        Default value                
        Accept pipeline input?       false
        Accept wildcard characters?  false
        
    -ToVersion <String>
        The version to which you want to migrate the current one.
        
        Required?                    true
        Position?                    named
        Default value                
        Accept pipeline input?       false
        Accept wildcard characters?  false
        
    -Command [<SwitchParameter>]
        Indicates to execute a command inside the container. This is used in 
        conjunction with RemainingArgs
        
        Required?                    true
        Position?                    named
        Default value                False
        Accept pipeline input?       false
        Accept wildcard characters?  false
        
    -RemainingArgs <Object>
        Commands to execute inside the container. If versions are not passed, it is
        executed at the beginning and then it exits after the execution. If 
        versions are passed, it is executed at the end of the script.
        
        Required?                    false
        Position?                    named
        Default value                
        Accept pipeline input?       false
        Accept wildcard characters?  false
        
    -Help [<SwitchParameter>]
        Get full help for this script.
        
        Required?                    true
        Position?                    named
        Default value                False
        Accept pipeline input?       false
        Accept wildcard characters?  false
        
    -Offline [<SwitchParameter>]
        If provided, the script will not try to download the update package. 
        This means that you have to provide the update package from a volume.
        
        Required?                    false
        Position?                    named
        Default value                False
        Accept pipeline input?       false
        Accept wildcard characters?  false
        
    <CommonParameters>
        This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
        ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,
        OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. 
        For more information, see about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216). 
    
NOTES
    
    
    File name: docker-entrypoint.ps1
        
    requires -Version 7.0
    
    -------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------
    
    PS > docker container run -i "..." advantys/workflowgen-upgrade:latest-ubuntu-18.04 -Help
    
    Displays the full help for the container.
    
    
    
    
    -------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------
    
    PS > docker container run -i "..." advantys/workflowgen-upgrade:latest-ubuntu-18.04 -Command dir /mnt/appdata
    
    This executes an arbitrary command inside the container. It can be useful 
    for debugging network issues or other problems prior to the migration.
    
    
    
    
    -------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------
    
    PS > docker container run -i "..." advantys/workflowgen-upgrade:latest-ubuntu-18.04 -FromVersion 7.14.10 -ToVersion 7.18.2
    
    This will launch the migration process to upgrade WorkflowGen from version 
    7.14.10 to the 7.18.2 version.
    
    
    
    
    -------------------------- EXAMPLE 4 --------------------------
    
    PS > docker container run -i "..." advantys/workflowgen-upgrade:latest-ubuntu-18.04 -FromVersion 7.14.10 -ToVersion 7.18.2 dir /mnt/appdata
    
    This will launch the migration process to upgrade WorkflowGen from version 
    7.14.10 to the 7.18.2 version. In addition, it will execute an arbitrary command 
    at the end of the migration process.

Using an external configuration manager

Some popular configuration managers support Docker containers out-of-the-box. You would use an external configuration manager only for environment variables definition. Here are a few links to their specific documentation to get you started:

Chef

Ansible

Puppet

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