Version management

HashiCorp maintains all clusters on the most recent major and minor versions of HCP Vault Dedicated. Within a major release family, the most recent stable minor version will be automatically maintained for all tiers. Major versions are automatically maintained for the development tier. For standard and plus tiers, you are able to:

• Set a maintenance window in which HCP Vault Dedicated will attempt to upgrade their cluster to the most recent available major version.
• Defer upgrade, and opt to upgrade manually up to 30 days from the time of availability of the latest version.

When a specific Vault Enterprise version approaches its end-of-life on HCP, existing HCP users will receive a notification to upgrade to a supported version.

1. Log into the HCP Portal.

2. From the Vault clusters page, click the Vault cluster you want to manage upgrade settings for.

3. Click Upgrade settings in the left navigation menu.

4. Click Edit settings.

5. Select either Manual or Scheduled.

   Manual: The manual setting allows you to upgrade your cluster on your own within the upgrade grace period (30 days). If the upgrade has been completed by the end of the grace period, the cluster will be automatically upgraded.

   Scheduled: The scheduled setting allows you to set a specific day and time window for available upgrades to be performed.

6. Click Apply changes.

Tutorial

• HCP Vault Dedicated operation tasks