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Content Delivery Roles in an upgrade or migration scenario coming from SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1

If you are upgrading from SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1, you can decide between two options: perform a minimal upgrade now, resulting in a deprecated setup, and migrate to the new setup later (possibly in steps); or perform a direct migration now, resulting in a new, standalone service-based setup.

Before SDL Web 8, Content Delivery software components could take the form of Web applications (or Web application extensions), Windows services or Java processes; as of SDL Web 8, they are Web applications (or Web application extensions) or microservices (also called Content Interaction Services). Regardless of whether you perform a minimal upgrade or a full migration, you will need to adjust your implementation to this new framework.