Upgrade Milvus Standalone with Docker Compose

This topic describes how to upgrade your Milvus using Docker Compose.

In normal cases, you can upgrade Milvus by changing its image. However, you need to migrate the metadata before any upgrade from v2.1.x to v2.4.18.

Upgrade Milvus by changing its image

In normal cases, you can upgrade Milvus as follows:

1. Change the Milvus image tag in docker-compose.yaml.

   ...
   standalone:
     container_name: milvus-standalone
     image: milvusdb/milvus:v2.4.18
   

2. Run the following commands to perform the upgrade.

   docker compose down
   docker compose up -d
   

Migrate the metadata

1. Stop all Milvus components.

   docker stop <milvus-component-docker-container-name>
   

2. Prepare the configuration file migration.yaml for meta migration.

   # migration.yaml
   cmd:
     # Option: run/backup/rollback
     type: run
     runWithBackup: true
   config:
     sourceVersion: 2.1.4   # Specify your milvus version
     targetVersion: 2.4.18
     backupFilePath: /tmp/migration.bak
   metastore:
     type: etcd
   etcd:
     endpoints:
       - milvus-etcd:2379  # Use the etcd container name
     rootPath: by-dev # The root path where data is stored in etcd
     metaSubPath: meta
     kvSubPath: kv
   

3. Run the migration container.

   # Suppose your docker-compose run with the default milvus network,
   # and you put migration.yaml in the same directory with docker-compose.yaml.
   docker run --rm -it --network milvus -v $(pwd)/migration.yaml:/milvus/configs/migration.yaml milvusdb/meta-migration:v2.2.0 /milvus/bin/meta-migration -config=/milvus/configs/migration.yaml
   

4. Start Milvus components again with the new Milvus image.

   // Run the following only after update the milvus image tag in the docker-compose.yaml
   docker compose down
   docker compose up -d
   

What’s next

• You might also want to learn how to:
  • Scale a Milvus cluster
• If you are ready to deploy your cluster on clouds:
  • Learn how to Deploy Milvus on Amazon EKS with Terraform
  • Learn how to Deploy Milvus Cluster on GCP with Kubernetes
  • Learn how to Deploy Milvus on Microsoft Azure With Kubernetes