2.1. Open edX Juniper Release

This section describes how to install the Open edX Juniper release.

2.1.1. What’s Included in Juniper

The Open edX Juniper release contains several new features for learners, course teams, and developers. For more information, see the Open edX Release Notes.

2.1.2. What Is the Juniper Git Tag?

A git tag identifies the version of Open edX code that is the Juniper release. About three dozen repositories are tagged as part of an Open edX release. Many other repositories are installed as dependencies of those repositories. You can find the most up-to-date git tag for Juniper on the Open edX Named Releases page.

2.1.3. Installing the Juniper Release

You can install the Open edX Juniper release using either devstack or the Open edX Native Installation instructions.

Juniper releases have git tag names like open-release/juniper.1. The available names are detailed on the Open edX Named Releases page.

2.1.4. Upgrading from the Ironwood Release

The recommended approach to upgrading an existing installation of the Open edX Ironwood release to the Juniper release is to make a fresh installation of the Juniper release on a new machine, and move your data and settings to it.

To move and upgrade your Ironwood data onto a Juniper installation, follow these steps.

  1. Be sure that your Ironwood installation is on the latest commit from open-release/ironwood.master. This ensures that your database is fully migrated and ready for upgrade to Juniper.

  2. Stop all services on the Ironwood machine.

  3. Dump the data on the Ironwood machine. Here’s an example script that will dump the MySQL and Mongo databases into a single .tgz file. The script will prompt for the MySQL and Mongo passwords as needed.

    #!/bin/bash
    MYSQL_CONN="-uroot -p"
    echo "Reading MySQL database names..."
    mysql ${MYSQL_CONN} -ANe "SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata WHERE schema_name NOT IN ('mysql','information_schema','performance_schema', 'sys')" > /tmp/db.txt
    DBS="--databases $(cat /tmp/db.txt)"
    NOW="$(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)"
    SQL_FILE="mysql-data-${NOW}.sql"
    echo "Dumping MySQL structures..."
    mysqldump ${MYSQL_CONN} --add-drop-database --skip-add-drop-table --no-data ${DBS} > ${SQL_FILE}
    echo "Dumping MySQL data..."
    # If there is table data you don't need, add --ignore-table=tablename
    mysqldump ${MYSQL_CONN} --no-create-info ${DBS} >> ${SQL_FILE}
    
    for db in edxapp cs_comments_service; do
        echo "Dumping Mongo db ${db}..."
        mongodump -u admin -p -h localhost --authenticationDatabase admin -d ${db} --out mongo-dump-${NOW}
    done
    
    tar -czf openedx-data-${NOW}.tgz ${SQL_FILE} mongo-dump-${NOW}
    
  4. Copy the .tgz data file to the Juniper machine.

  5. Stop all services on the Juniper machine.

  6. Restore the Ironwood data into the Juniper machine. As an example, you might use the following commands.

    $ tar -xvf openedx-data-20200411T154750.tgz
    $ mysql -uroot -p < mysql-data-20200411T154750.sql
    $ mongorestore -u admin -p -h localhost --authenticationDatabase admin --drop -d edxapp mongo-dump-20200411T154750/edxapp
    $ mongorestore -u admin -p -h localhost --authenticationDatabase admin --drop -d cs_comment_service mongo-dump-20200411T154750/cs_comment_service_development
    
  7. Run the Juniper migrations, which will update your Ironwood data to be valid for Juniper:

    $ /edx/app/edx_ansible/edx_ansible/util/install/native.sh --tags migrate
    
  8. Copy your configuration files from the Ironwood machine to the Juniper machine.

  9. Restart all services.

2.1.5. Upgrading to a Subsequent Juniper Release

Occasionally, we release updates to Juniper. For example, the second release of Juniper will be open-release/juniper.2. The steps to upgrade differ based on your original installation method.

2.1.5.1. Upgrading a Docker Installation

Devstack is installed using Docker. To upgrade from one Juniper release to another, follow the instructions in devstack.

2.1.5.2. Upgrading a Native Installation

If you installed Open edX using the Open edX Native Installation, you can upgrade from one Juniper release to another by re-running those steps using your desired Juniper tag as the new value for OPENEDX_RELEASE.