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Migration from Amazon Linux AL2 to AL2023

cassiocassio
edited May 19 in Questions

I´ve received a notice from AWS of End of life support of AL2 recommending migration to AL2023.
My questions:
1. How much is important to this migration
2. If is really important, how to do this migration and what are the risks of doing in a running sendy instalation
3. I´ve seen that cron jobs are not installed in AL2023 and they recommend using systemd; shall I instal cron for AL2023 or can Sendy work with systemd and what is necessary for it?

Comments

  • BenBen

    Hi,

    1. Sendy will continue to work as long as your server has a supported web server, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, and the required PHP extensions.

    2. Since AWS doesn’t provide an in-place upgrade path from AL2 to AL2023, the safest approach is to launch a new AL2023 instance, set up the required stack, migrate your Sendy files and database, setup the cron jobs, test everything, then switch traffic over. Always take a full backup before migrating.

    3. You can install cron on AL2023 and keep using your existing cron jobs, it will work.

    Best regards,
    Ben

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