Upgrading the Cache Channel Service
To upgrade the Cache Channel Service, uninstall the existing Windows service or Java process, then install the Cache Channel Service as a microservice.
- Uninstalling the Cache Channel Service running as a Windows service
To uninstall the Cache Channel Service Windows service, find and uninstall the corresponding Windows process. - Uninstalling the Cache Channel Service running as a Java process
If your Cache Channel Service runs as a Java process, uninstall it by hand. - Copying resources for the Cache Channel Service
Copy microservice resources to your target machine. - Restoring your Cache Channel Service configuration
Restore the configuration files you backed up and make them work with SDL Web 8. - Installing the Cache Channel Service as a standalone microservice
Run the appropriate microservice installation PowerShell or Unix script to install and run the standalone microservice. - Securing the microservice with SSL
You may wish to secure your microservice using Secure Socket Layer (SSL), so that an HTTPS connection is required to interact with the service. If you do, you require a certificate signed and issued by a Certificate Authority (CA), a private key, and a keystore containing both of these. You then configure the keystore in the application.properties file of your microservice. You can reuse the same certificate, key and keystore for multiple microservices, so long as they are all running on the same machine. This section assumes that you have no certificate, key or keystore yet. If you do, you can skip the topics that do not apply.