Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/automake.mk                    |  1 +
 Documentation/intro/install/index.rst        |  8 +++
 Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 96 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst


v1->v2:
 - Update for new docs structure.
 - Change upgrade ordering based on previous discussion.  ovn-controller
   is now upgraded first.


diff --git a/Documentation/automake.mk b/Documentation/automake.mk
index 18e03a3..42553f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/automake.mk
+++ b/Documentation/automake.mk
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
        Documentation/intro/install/fedora.rst \
        Documentation/intro/install/general.rst \
        Documentation/intro/install/netbsd.rst \
+       Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst \
        Documentation/intro/install/rhel.rst \
        Documentation/intro/install/userspace.rst \
        Documentation/intro/install/windows.rst \
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/index.rst 
b/Documentation/intro/install/index.rst
index 34b014a..8696b4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/index.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ provided below.
    fedora
    rhel
 
+Upgrades
+--------
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   ovn-upgrades
+
 Others
 ------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst 
b/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..420dc4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/ovn-upgrades.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+..
+      Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+      not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+      a copy of the License at
+
+          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+      distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+      WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+      License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+      under the License.
+
+      Convention for heading levels in Open vSwitch documentation:
+
+      =======  Heading 0 (reserved for the title in a document)
+      -------  Heading 1
+      ~~~~~~~  Heading 2
+      +++++++  Heading 3
+      '''''''  Heading 4
+
+      Avoid deeper levels because they do not render well.
+
+============
+OVN Upgrades
+============
+
+Since OVN is a distributed system, special consideration must be given to
+the process used to upgrade OVN across a deployment.  This document discusses
+the recommended upgrade process.
+
+Release Notes
+-------------
+
+You should always check the OVS and OVN release notes (NEWS file) for any
+release specific notes on upgrades.
+
+OVS
+---
+
+OVN depends on and is included with OVS.  It's expected that OVS and OVN are
+upgraded together, partly for convenience.  OVN is included in OVS releases
+so it's easiest to upgrade them together.  OVN may also make use of new
+features of OVS only available in that release.
+
+Upgrade ovn-controller
+----------------------
+
+You should start by upgrading ovn-controller on each host its running on.
+First, you upgrade the OVS and OVN packages.  Then, restart the
+ovn-controller service.  You can restart with ovn-ctl::
+
+    $ sudo /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovn-ctl restart_controller
+
+or with systemd::
+
+    $ sudo systemd restart ovn-controller
+
+Upgrade OVN Databases and ovn-northd
+------------------------------------
+
+The OVN databases and ovn-northd should be upgraded next.  Since ovn-controller
+has already been upgraded, it will be ready to operate on any new functionality
+specified by the database or logical flows created by ovn-northd.
+
+Upgrading the OVN packages installs everything needed for an upgrade.  The only
+step required after upgrading the packages is to restart ovn-northd, which
+automatically restarts the databases and upgrades the database schema, as well.
+
+You may perform this restart using the ovn-ctl script::
+
+    $ sudo /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovn-ctl restart_northd
+
+or if you're using a Linux distribution with systemd::
+
+    $ sudo systemctl restart ovn-northd
+
+Upgrading OVN Integration
+-------------------------
+
+Lastly, you may also want to upgrade integration with OVN that you may be
+using.  For example, this could be the OpenStack Neutron driver or
+ovn-kubernetes.
+
+OVN's northbound database schema is a backwards compatible interface, so
+you should be able to safely complete an OVN upgrade before upgrading
+any integration in use.
-- 
2.9.3

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