Upgrade Key Manager on Upstream Kubernetes

You can upgrade the AIStor Key Manager version in a given cluster by specifying a new image to the Helm chart.

Review and complete all prerequisites before proceeding.

1. Make a backup of the current state of your Key Manager cluster.

   minkms backup
   

2. Use your preferred text editor to open the aistor-keymanager-operator-values.yaml file used when installing Key Manager.

   For example, to open the file in nano from the current directory, use the following:

   nano aistor-keymanager-operator-values.yaml
   

3. Update the values in keyManager.image and save the changes.

   The following updates the image to RELEASE.2025-07-15T06-12-56Z.

   After modification, the file should resemble the following:

   global: license
      license: "LICENSE-STRING"
   
   keyManager:
      image: 
         repository: quay.io/minio/aistor/minkms
         tag: RELEASE.2025-07-15T06-12-56Z
         pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   

4. Apply the updated values to upgrade the deployment.

   helm upgrade keymanager-operator minio/aistor-keymanager-operator --reuse-values -n keymanager-operator -f aistor-keymanager-operator-values.yaml
   

   If successful, the command outputs a summary of installed resources.

   To validate the installation, run kubectl get all -n keymanager-operator and check the status of deployed resources.