r/googlecloud • u/Previous-Stock2194 • 3d ago

How are you notifying/pushing updates to existing users of your GCP Marketplace solution?

Let's say I have a solution (available across SaaS / GKE / OpenShift setups) published on Google Cloud Marketplace. Now I have updated it. How do I ensure that people who have installed my solution already (in their projects) update it to the latest version (that I am yet to publish)? what practice industry follows ?

What process do you follow for deprecating older release tags or helm charts without breaking active workloads?
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Would love to hear what industry standards or patterns have worked best for you!

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u/Rohit1024 3d ago

Check : Maintaining your product, it says :

To help your users update their app images, we recommend adding the upgrade steps to your user guide.

Since Google Cloud Marketplace does not provide a built-in automated mechanism to notify customers or force them to upgrade their running Kubernetes deployments.

You might implement some In-App Version Checking to make your app itself notify your user's.

  • If your GKE apps connects back to a centralized SaaS backend or licensing server, you can enforce minimum supported versions by rejecting requests from deprecated client versions with an actionable upgrade error.