HCL Digital experience : database-transfer ConfigEngine process ending prematurely in Kubernetes Environments read this to fix it

We are living the hard days before the end year holidays. 

Between 2 HCL Connections go-live, log4j issue and some more crazy things I'm also working on my first HCL Digital experience ( Formerly Known As WebSphere Portal )  9.5 CF199 deployment for a customer in Kubernetes.

The deployment part was super smooth and in some minutes we was up and running, after the Kubernetes setup and the helm deployment.. and now ? 

Nothing relevant reading the official documentation so , I was starting with cwprofile to transfer databases and security to db2 and the customer ldap and here start the pain.

Following the default deployment in a Kubernetes environment the portal, cwprofile and the WebSphere console are deployed as default behind an ambassador service used for ingress on port 80 and 443 but, after I have started the db-transfer migration and reached the restart step , the wizard became unresponsive and the process failed.

After some research and the community help  I finally found this technote with the solution:  if you like to have your cwprofile able to survive while the portal was restarted , you needs to modify the default value about the liviness Probe as below:

core:

# Liveness probe using the application shell based probe

livenessProbe:

exec:

# Command here is ignored and replaced with calculated value

command:

- ""

failureThreshold: 120

initialDelaySeconds: 0

periodSeconds: 60

successThreshold: 1

timeoutSeconds: 10

# Readiness probe using the application shell based probe

readinessProbe:

exec:

# Command here is ignored and replaced with calculated value

command:

- ""

failureThreshold: 120

initialDelaySeconds: 0

periodSeconds: 60

successThreshold: 1

timeoutSeconds: 10

Nothing hard but , as holidays gift I wish HCL will be able to write this technote , as standard procedure  inside the official documentation or at least to link the technote there, in the appropriate section.

I wrote this blogpost to try to help the next admin , on the first ride, with HCL DX and Kubernetes.

This will be probably my last blogpost for the 2021, so happy holidays and see you in 2022 !!