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Container Administration 9.5

New HCL WebSphere Portal 9.5 CF_xxx container images are released on a regular cadence. Images include fixes to HCL WebSphere Portal, comprised of:

For the latest list of DX 9.5 Container Images delivered through the Container Update releases, consult the Digital Experience Deployment topic

Customers should not apply maintenance to an HCL WebSphere Portal 9.5 container image. Instead, they should run the update process as described below. Customers should not extend the HCL WebSphere Portal 9.5 container images. They are not intended to be used in the FROM instruction as a parent image. Critical hot fixes are built for HCL WebSphere Portal 9.5 container releases when required outside of the container release process. HCL WebSphere Portal customers can contact HCL Customer Support if a critical fix is required for their HCL WebSphere Portal containerized deployment. There is a separation of product and customer code. Customizations should be kept in the wp_profile in the persistent volume and the external and the external database. As HCL WebSphere Portal 9.5 container development moves forward with the deployment type, an effort to better separate custom code from product code is planned.

Video tutorial: HCL WebSphere Portal - Update an HCL WebSphere Portal Docker Container

Starting with 9.5, under the HCL WebSphere Portal container update releases, as new HCL DX 9.5 images become available from HCL, customers can modify the custom resource instance to use 9.5. The initial HCL WebSphere Portal 9.5 container update release available to DX customers in the HCL Software License Portal page.

This pattern is possible because customizations are not made to the image but isolated to the persistent volume and external database, which follows best practices.

The procedure for updating to a new release of the HCL WebSphere Portal 9.5 image is detailed in the Update the Digital Experience 9.5 Core Kubernetes Container Deployment.

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