Release notes for version 20.08

Highlights#

Tower 20.08.0 introduces the support for:

• Pipelines Actions
• Forge for AWS Batch
• Execution and task logs view & download
• Advanced config options for AWS Batch
• GA4GH WES API (beta)
• UI looks & feel improvements
• System security improvements
• Upgrade Micronaut runtime to 1.3.7

Updating Tower deployment from version 20.06.x to 20.08.x#

This Tower version requires a database schema update. Follow this steps to update your DB instance and the Tower installation.

Kubernetes based deployment#

1. Update the Tower container images in your Kubernetes manifest yaml files to:

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195996028523.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nf-tower-enterprise/backend:v20.08.0 195996028523.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nf-tower-enterprise/frontend:v20.08.0

Please refer the manifests included in the Kubernetes section for details.

2. Update the Tower cron service using the following:

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kubectl apply -f tower-cron.yml

3. Update the Tower backend and frontend services using the following command:

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kubectl apply -f tower-svc.yml

Custom deployment script#

1. Pull or update the Tower container images references in your deployment script(s) to:

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195996028523.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nf-tower-enterprise/backend:v20.08.0 195996028523.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nf-tower-enterprise/frontend:v20.08.0

2. Update the Tower database schema running the /migrate-db.sh provided in the backend container.

3. Once the schema update completes, deploy Tower as usual procedure.