# Documentation about how to upgrade awx **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** awx\ **Created:** [May 9, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-about-how-to-upgrade-awx/30286 "2019-05-09T09:56:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dan\_Steffen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@Dan\_Steffen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dan_Steffen)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-about-how-to-upgrade-awx/30286/1 "2019-05-09T09:56:36Z")
Hello, at the moment we try to evaluate the usage of AWX for our company and at the moment I try to find documentation about a reliable way to upgrade awx. And related to this question does awx has something like a rolling release? Because at the first run the Splash-Screen says something like: “searching for awx upgrades”. Maybe someone here can give me some information about the usage of awx with regard to the administation in general and the upgrade. best regards Dan ---
**Author:** ![Uriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/53a042/32.png) [@Uriel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Uriel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-about-how-to-upgrade-awx/30286/2 "2019-05-09T15:33:05Z")
I’m putting myself out on a limb here since I know others have different feelings about this but in my experience upgrading between most versions is simply pulling /building the latest containers and running those. Once in a while there are breaking changes that will force you to wipe your DB but those are well announced and you can export most resources via the tower-cli tool. I’m not sure what you mean by rolling release but updates to AWX deployment are done exclusively via pulling or building new images - if you aren’t doing either of these you won’t get any updates from the project. If you want the latest bug fixes or features you’ll want to constantly build images. ---
**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-about-how-to-upgrade-awx/30286/3 "2019-05-09T15:38:48Z")
It certainly is and you can export data albiet the secrets via the tower-cli command. ---
**Author:** ![rpetrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@rpetrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rpetrell)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-about-how-to-upgrade-awx/30286/4 "2019-05-09T19:19:53Z")
What Uriel has suggested is generally what we strive for. We’ve made some notable changes in recent history to try to make upgradeability a bit easier/seamless on folks. This issue and comment thread provide some valuable context that might interest you: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/2173#issuecomment-487978897](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/2173#issuecomment-487978897)