Upgrade process

Read through the complete information about the upgrade options, prerequisites, and the overall process before starting the upgrade. Cloudera recommends that you validate these steps in a test environment to adjust and account for any special configurations for your cluster.

The high-level process for performing an HDP intermediate bits upgrade is as follows:

Ambari will guide you through the steps required to upgrade the HDP intermediate bits. Make sure Ambari and the cluster are healthy, operating normally, and all service checks are passing. Ambari 7.1.x.x supports only the express method for upgrading HDP 2.6.5.x to HDP intermediate bits. An Express Upgrade orchestrates the HDP upgrade in an order that will incur cluster downtime.