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Upgrading AzureTRE version

This document will cover how Azure TRE is referenced and how to upgrade its version in the Azure TRE deployment repository

Introduction

Azure TRE is referenced as an external folder in the Azure TRE deployment repository (which is used as a template for your project in the quick start guide). A specific version of Azure TRE is downloaded as part of the devcontainer setup.

A symlink is then created making it available to reference in the directory itself (it is available only for reference, any changes to it are gitignored).

How to upgrade the Azure TRE version

Please check the release notes before upgrading.

  • If using a repository created from the AzureTRE-Deployment template, then run the following git commands in your own repo: 
    git remote add upstream https://github.com/Microsoft/AzureTRE-Deployment
git pull upstream main --allow-unrelated-histories
    This will pull the latest version of AzureTRE to your copy of the repository. You may need to resolve merge conflicts if you have made edits. The git remote add command is only necessary the first time you upgrade your TRE version. After the first time, you only need to execute the git pull command.

Once the code is merged, follow the same process used to initially deploy the TRE to upgrade the TRE. This might mean running a command such as make all, or running your CI/CD pipeline(s).

If running commands manually, please ensure that you build and push the container images. Running make tre-deploy alone will update the infrastructure but not the container images. make all runs all the required commands.

Deploying a specific version of Azure TRE

If you wish to upgrade or deploy a specific version, or unreleased version of Azure TRE and are using the Azure TRE deployment repository you can change the value of OSS_VERSION in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, for example:

  • "OSS_VERSION": "v0.9.0" (to use the specified tag; be sure to specify the complete tag name (prefixed with v and not the release name)
  • "OSS_VERSION": "main" (to use the latest code in the "main" branch)
  • "OSS_VERSION": "1c6ff35ec9246e53b86e93b9da5b97911edc71c1" (to use the code at the time of the commit identified by the hash)

Deploying a fork of Azure TRE

If you wish to deploy the Azure TRE from a forked repository you can change the value of OSS_REPO in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, for example:

  • "OSS_REPO": "microsoft/AzureTRE" (the default)
  • "OSS_REPO": "myorg/AzureTRE" (to point to fork of the Azure TRE in your GitHub organisation)

When changing OSS_REPO ensure the OSS_VERSION variable refers to a GitHub ref on the repository fork.