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The 0.6.2 to 1.0.1 upgrade guide describes the migration stops but leaves the
bounded Cassandra migrations, OpenBao rotation, bridge rollouts, and backups as prose. Add the commands for each step and correct the gates and prerequisites that an end-to-end run showed to be wrong.

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  • Add the bounded migration Job, its ConfigMap script, the migrate
    invocation, and the goto targets for all seven keyspaces. The released chart has no command override or per-keyspace target.
  • Add the OpenBao two-rotation commands, the ICMS and NVCT bridge helpers with the expected backfill records, the finishing syncs, the Raft snapshot and Helm values backups, and the compute-plane re-registration checks.
  • Correct the NVCT backfill gate: withoutLegacyHealth counts completed and canceled tasks, so it is normally nonzero. Gate on missing, mismatched, failed, and current + withoutLegacyHealth = scanned.
  • Add prerequisites the guide assumed: nvcf-cli api-key generate before the invoke and task commands, imagePullSecrets and a checked REPLICA_COUNT for the Job, kubectl 1.31 for kubectl wait --for=create, and the
    observability layout keys for the target environment file.

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  • Documentation
    • Expanded upgrade prerequisites to cover target bundles, observability, configuration, Cassandra volumes, and CLI access.
    • Added protected backup procedures and bounded Cassandra migration checks, including exact source and target ledger validation.
    • Documented OpenBao rotation and service backfill checkpoints, required logs, and validation counts.
    • Added target schema and retained-data checks, plus compute-cluster region and pull-secret checks.
    • Clarified that full sync resets ICMS and NVCT to one replica, and added a stop condition for loss of a live Cassandra volume mount.

…nd to end

The upgrade guide described the migration stops but left operators to work
out the commands. This adds the executable procedure: bounded Cassandra
migration Jobs, the two-rotation OpenBao sequence, the ICMS and NVCT bridge
helpers with their backfill records, the finishing syncs, backups, and the
compute-plane re-registration checks.

A live rehearsal (0.6.1 to 0.6.2 to 1.0.1, three Cassandra and three OpenBao
members, real GPUs) ran every command as written and found these corrections:

- The NVCT health backfill gate required withoutLegacyHealth=0. That count
  covers completed and canceled tasks, which never had a legacy health value,
  so it is normally nonzero. Gate on missing, mismatched, failed, and
  current + withoutLegacyHealth = scanned instead.
- function invoke and task commands need keys from nvcf-cli api-key generate;
  the administrator token alone returns 403 and 401.
- The bounded Job needs imagePullSecrets for authenticated registries, and
  REPLICA_COUNT must be re-read and checked before the first Job because the
  event_ledger migration bakes it into the keyspace definition.
- kubectl 1.31 or later is required for kubectl wait --for=create, and the
  procedure depends on shell state carried between steps.
- Helm can time out on a long Cassandra roll while the StatefulSet continues;
  rollout status is the gate.

Relates to #2191

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The upgrade guide expands the 0.6.1-to-1.0.1 procedure with deployment prerequisites, backup steps, bounded Cassandra migrations, ICMS and NVCT backfill validation, and post-sync configuration checks.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Bundle setup and target configuration
docs/overview/release-notes/0.6.1-to-1.0.1-upgrade.md
The guide specifies observability bundle requirements, deployment prerequisites, target configuration, Cassandra credential checks, and rendered storage checks. It adds a stop condition for target renders that omit a live Cassandra subPath.
Baseline checks and backups
docs/overview/release-notes/0.6.1-to-1.0.1-upgrade.md
The guide adds API-key and baseline checks, explicit Cassandra container selection, Cassandra and OpenBao backup steps, and pre-migration rollout and ledger checks.
Bounded Cassandra migration
docs/overview/release-notes/0.6.1-to-1.0.1-upgrade.md
The guide describes bounded migration Jobs with source and target ledger checks, temporary credentials, sequential execution, and clean-state verification.
Bridge backfills and NVCT contract migration
docs/overview/release-notes/0.6.1-to-1.0.1-upgrade.md
The guide adds bridge log polling and ICMS and NVCT backfill record checks, then documents NVCT contract migration and Cassandra hook checks.
Full sync and validation
docs/overview/release-notes/0.6.1-to-1.0.1-upgrade.md
The guide documents replica defaults after full sync, cluster region and pull-secret checks, and CLI API-key requirements for validation.

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tar -C does not create the target directory, so the extraction command
failed on a fresh host. Add mkdir -p and move the commands into a code
block.

Signed-off-by: Manasi <mmahadik@nvidia.com>
…grading

The 1.0.1 stack does not forward cassandra.persistence.subPath to the
Cassandra chart, so installations that adopted Bitnami volumes in 0.6.1
render a StatefulSet without the subPath and would start empty members.
The volume claim template check does not catch this because the subPath is
part of the pod template.

Add a data volume mount comparison next to the volume claim template check,
a stop condition, the secrets-file override that carries the setting through
every Cassandra sync including make install, and a pointer to the optional
relocation script.

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🟠 Major · Verify the no-op result for every keyspace. · 0.6.1-to-1.0.1-upgrade.md:1206

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Verify the no-op result for every keyspace.

grep -i 'no change' succeeds after one matching line. It does not prove that every keyspace was a no-op.

Compare the log with the expected keyspace list and stop if any keyspace lacks a no change result.

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Update the Cassandra migration verification command to check every expected
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current grep only confirms that at least one matching line exists.
🟠 Major · Compare the replica count with the recorded backup value. · 0.6.1-to-1.0.1-upgrade.md:828-830

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Compare the replica count with the recorded backup value.

test -n "$CASSANDRA_REPLICAS" checks only that the current value is non-empty. It does not compare the value with the replica count recorded before the upgrade, although the event_ledger migration uses it as the replication factor.

Store the recorded value and fail if the current count differs before creating the Jobs.

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Update the Cassandra replica-count check so it compares the current
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Three checks could pass when the operator should stop: the rendered
subPath grep matched any mount, the REPLICA_COUNT guard only tested for a
non-empty value, and the final migration log check printed matches without
counting them. Anchor the render check to the data mount, record the replica
count at backup time and compare against it before the first Job, and
require exactly seven no-change lines. Define BACKUP_DIR before its first use.

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The replica-count and no-change checks printed a message on success but
let the following commands run on failure. Wrap the migration Jobs and the
cleanup in conditionals so a mismatch prints a stop message and runs nothing
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