Upgrading your Zabbix setup
As we’ve seen throughout the book already, Zabbix 7 offers a great deal of cool new features. Zabbix 7.0 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, so just like 5.0 and 6.0, you will receive long-term support for it. Let’s see how we can upgrade a Zabbix server from version 6.0 to version 7.0.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we will need our server called lar-book-zbx6. At this point, your server will be running either a RHEL8-based Linux distribution or a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, or newer versions of those distributions.
If you followed the Upgrading the Zabbix backend from older PHP versions to PHP 8.2 or higher recipe, your server will now be running PHP version 8.2 or higher. If not, it’s a good option to follow that recipe first.
If you followed the Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 11.4 recipe, it will now be running MariaDB version 11.4. If not, it’s...
