How to update JTLReporter on a standalone workplace

[MoritzSalein]

Hi,
is it possible to get an instruction how I can update my installation of JTLReporter on a standalone workplace with Docker Desktop?
I'm not familiar with updating the JtlReporter container with docker compose. After my steps, see below, I don't have access to my old project and my test runs anymore.
My current additional problem is, that I worked with the former feature branch of version 4.0 (feature/v4).

My failed steps are:

• stopping all JTLReporter container
• git switch to the main repository of the JTLReporter and overriding all old local files
• docker compose pull
• docker compose up -d
• take connection to the web interface of JTLReporter
• now I've to set new user and password
• after login I haven't any project in the dashboard

Many thanks in advance.

[ludeknovy]

Hi @MoritzSalein.

Always make a backup of your DB first, eg: docker exec -t your-db-container pg_dumpall -c -U postgres > dump_date +%d-%m-%Y""%H%M_%S.sql

1. shut the app down, docker-compose down
2. Update the docker-compose.yml file
3. Run docker-compose pull
4. Run docker-compose up -d

In the scenario you described, it looks like you deleted your DB. You are asked to create a new user only when there is none in the DB.

Do you have both jtl_reporter and jtl_reporter_v4 folder in ./data?

[MoritzSalein]

Hi @ludeknovy,

Ok, I try it as you descirbed.

After my steps I have both folders in my data directory.
Before I made my update steps, I had only a jtl_reporter folder.

Thank you.

[ludeknovy]

Yeah, so your old data should be in jtl_reporter.

Remove the jtl_reporter_v4 and rename the jtl_reporter to jtl_reporter_v4 (or change docker-compose file to use jtl_reporter). That should make it work hopefully.

I changed the folder later on, and you started using the v4 when it was still under development, so that's where the discrepancy came in.

[MoritzSalein]

Thank you for your first class support.

I stopped my failed JTLReporter update and delete the jtl_reporter_v4 folder and changed the jtl_reporter folder to jtl_reporter_v4 folder. After restart I got my old data in the dashboard.

[ludeknovy]

Btw if you want to test the recent updates you requested, you need to use the latest tag instead of v4.x.x as they were not released yet, but please bear in mind that the latest tag contains significant changes related to user roles.