PMP migration to CARA's new EPR platform

[dvribeira]

Dear @CARA-ch/pmp-coordination,

As per the subject and as you might be aware of, CARA has already migrated their EPR integration environment to the new platform provider. There is also a new integration kit site.

We are urged to migrate the dev and int instances of the PMP to the new platform of the EPR for two main reasons:

• Production migration will take place in early December. We need to test that everything works on our side on int, to ensure a smooth migration of the Geneva pilot phase, although the risk is much much lower than for the EPR.
• CARA wishes to perform tests and demos of their own within the new integration environment ASAP as part of the ongoing efforts.

Because of the aforementioned reasons, and although we are fully aware that current integrations might have to perform some adaptations of varying complexity, we are announcing a new deployment of the PMP backend on Wednesday 26th of November, starting from 9am CET, during which there will be periods of downtime. We are reserving the whole day for migrating and testing, so you should expect periods of downtime. We ask clients to refrain from testing until this announcement is updated after finishing the migration and the migration tests.

This deployment will include the migration to CARA's new EPR platform. This will impact all clients, that are expected to migrate their own configuration plus perform any adaptations needed according to their own capabilities and schedules. We will provide as much support as we can on our side and so will CARA for whatever questions or issues might arise that are purely related to the EPR infrastructure and for which we cannot provide any support.

Some extra bugfixes will also be deployed with this version, all relevant details will be published tomorrow morning at the latest on the service guide, as per previous deployments.

Should you have any extra questions or concerns, you can either reply to this thread or contact me directly.

[dvribeira]

Deployment update: after encountering some unexpected issues due to dependencies updates for the new deployment, ws-pmp-int is up but still connected to the post platform and ws-pmp-dev is connected to the new platform but is affected by the aforementioned issues.

Consequences:

• Deployment will continue tomorrow. Both instances might be down at any time during the whole day.
• The DB on ws-pmp-dev might be wiped out as part of the deployment once the issues on the aggregator side have been fixed.

[dvribeira]

Unfortunately, it took us longer than expected to fix the issues we encountered. The issues have been fixed now, but given the time of the day we have decided we will deploy and migrate ws-pmp-int.cara.ch tomorrow, so you should expect downtime on the int instance tomorrow, in the meantime the instance is still up but connected to the old EPR platform.

ws-pmp-dev.cara.ch will be available later today (around 5pm), unless other news are reported here, and connected to the new EPR platform.

[dvribeira]

The aggregator instance on ws-pmp-int.cara.ch is now up and running fine, so clients should feel free to connect to it and report any issues they encounter.

The portal and the mag instances on ws-pmp-int.cara.ch are currently not ready yet as migration configuration changes and tests will be carried on throughout the day.