Upgrading Content Delivery to a new environment

Upgrade Content Delivery to a new environment if your existing environment is no longer supported, or because you want to upgrade your environment along with Content Delivery.

About this task

This is a broad outline of the upgrade procedure. For a more detailed analysis, contact SDL Professional Services, or one of SDL's partners, to have an upgrade scan performed for you.

Procedure

  1. Perform a fresh SDL Tridion Sites 9 Content Delivery server installation of the microservices you need on the new machine. If you intend to continue to use deprecated legacy features of Content Delivery, refer to the SDL Tridion Sites 9 legacy documentation to learn how to do a fresh install of those deprecated legacy features.
  2. Upgrade your existing Content Delivery database(s) to SDL Tridion Sites 9.
  3. From your existing Content Delivery server environment, back up, or make a note of, all customizations you have made to Content Delivery, specifically:
    • Content Deployer customizations or extensions
    • Storage Layer extensions
    • Any custom software that talks to the Content Delivery microservices
    • All Content Delivery configuration files that you have modified
  4. Restore or reapply these customizations on your new Content Delivery servers.