Overview

Recommendations and Best Practices for AKS

Infoworks recommends you to complete the following steps prior to upgrading:

• Ensure to take a MongoDB backup.
• Ensure that a valid interactive_cluster exists before the upgrade takes place.

Important Note for Teradata Users

You must perform the following steps after upgrading:

Step 1: Ensure that you download the Teradata JDBC driver from the Teradata portal.

Step 2: Extract the compressed file (.zip or .tar), and copy the drivers namely, tdgssconfig.jar, terajdbc4.jar from the extracted file.

Step 3: Create following directories if it does not already exist.

$IW_HOME/uploads/lib/external-dependencies/common/spark_2x_211/teradata

$IW_HOME/uploads/lib/external-dependencies/common/spark_2x_212/teradata

$IW_HOME/uploads/lib/external-dependencies/common/spark_3x_212/teradata

Step 4: Paste the extracted drivers inside it.

Important Note for Cosmos DB as Target Users

You must perform the following steps after upgrading:

Step 1: Ensure that you download the Azure CosmosDB Spark 2.x jars from https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/microsoft/azure/azure-cosmosdb-spark_2.4.0_2.11/3.6.8/azure-cosmosdb-spark_2.4.0_2.11-3.6.8.jar

Step 2: Create the following directory if it does not exist already

$IW_HOME/uploads/lib/external-dependencies/common/spark_2x_211/cosmos_db

Step 3: Copy and place the downloaded jar file inside the directory.

Step 4: Ensure that you download the Azure CosmosDB Spark 3.x jars from https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=com/azure/cosmos/spark/azure-cosmos-spark_3-1_2-12/4.1.0/azure-cosmos-spark_3-1_2-12-4.1.0.jar.

Step 5: Create following directories if it not does not exist already

$IW_HOME/uploads/lib/external-dependencies/common/spark_3x_212/cosmos_db

Step 6: Copy and place the downloaded drivers inside it.