Upgrade Nakama #

When upgrading to a new version of Nakama, you need to do three things before you run the newer version:

  • Check the Release Notes, in case that version has specific upgrade requirements.
  • Migrate your data to the format supported by the new version of Nakama.
  • Ensure that the client version you’re running is compatible with the server deployed.

Docker #

As new versions of Nakama, or CockroachDB, become available you might want to upgrade. Docker makes upgrading easy, as all you need to do is pull down a new version of the container image. When upgrading to a new version of Nakama, the process in the docker-compose.yml performs a migration of your data to the new database schema automatically.

You can pull the most recent Nakama image and allow Docker Compose to perform the data migration.

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docker-compose down # top and remove both the Nakama and CockroachDB containers
docker pull heroiclabs/nakama # download the latest Nakama image
docker-compose up # start the containers (both Nakama and CockroachDB) as fresh installs

And, similarly, here’s how to update the CockroachDB container:

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docker pull cockroachdb/cockroach # download the latest CockroachDB image

If you’d like to explicitly run a database schema migration, issue the following command:

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docker run heroiclabs/nakama migrate up

Manual upgrade #

You can upgrade one node or your whole cluster to the latest version of Nakama by following the instructions below.

For each node in the cluster:

Stop Nakama. If you are using systemd on a Linux setup, the command is:

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sudo systemctl stop nakama

Back-up CockroachDB:

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cockroach dump nakama > mydatabackup.sql --insecure

Download the latest release and replace the nakama binary with the newer download.

Upgrade the database schema with the following command:

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nakama migrate up

To downgrade Nakama you can follow the same procedure, but replace the migration command with the following:

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nakama migrate down --limit 1

Start Nakama and verify that the upgraded version is running.

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sudo systemctl start nakama