Problem
I'd like to move from my current cloud provider (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure), to a different cloud provider. I would also like to move my Posit (formerly RStudio) Team suite across to the new cloud provider whilst ensuring that my Posit products will work as expected.
Is it possible?
Yes, it is most certainly possible to move your Posit Team suits to a different cloud vendor.
Will there be downtime during the migration?
Yes, unfortunately, it isn't possible to perform a hot migration with the Posit Team suite.
Can I use a migration tool provided by the cloud vendors to perform the migration?
Yes, a large part of the migration can be performed by migration tools provided by cloud vendors. That being said, each vendor handles these tools differently & it is important to ensure that after all of your data is moved across, it is structured identically to your old environment. Your Posit configuration files point to specific IP addresses & DNS names, so it is crucial to ensure that these are consistent across your new virtual network. It is important to ensure that the matching firewall rules are also retained.
Considerations
Workbench | Connect | Package Manager
Licensing
Your Posit Teams suite will have a license that will need to be moved to your new infrastructure. This license is based on a "fingerprint" of your VM, and this cannot be moved from one server to another. You will need to deactivate the licenses in your current infrastructure, then re-activate them on the new infrastructure once they have been migrated to the new vendor.
Note: If you delete the VMs before deactivating the license, you will need to use our manual deactivation tool which can be found here: http://apps.rstudio.com/deactivate-license/
Deactivating your online license
Workbench
sudo rstudio-server license-manager deactivate
Connect
sudo /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/license-manager deactivate
Package Manager
/opt/rstudio-pm/bin/license-manager deactivate
Deactivating your offline license:
Workbench
sudo rstudio-server license-manager deactivate-offline <product-key>
Connect
sudo /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/license-manager deactivate-offline <product-key>
Package Manager
/opt/rstudio-pm/bin/license-manager deactivate-offline
Deactivating your floating license:
Workbench
sudo rsp-license-server deactivate
Connect
sudo connect-license-server stop
sudo connect-license-server deactivate
Once you have deactivated your license, you can set up your new infrastructure & proceed to reactivate your licenses.
Activating your online license
Workbench
sudo rstudio-server license-manager activate <product-key>
sudo rstudio-server restart
Then, to check the status of the license, run this command:
sudo rstudio-server license-manager status
Connect
sudo /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/license-manager activate <product-key>
sudo systemctl restart rstudio-connect
Then, to check the status of the license, run this command:
sudo /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/license-manager status
Package Manager
sudo /opt/rstudio-pm/bin/license-manager activate <product-key>
sudo restart rstudio-pm
Then, to check the status of the license, run this command:
$ sudo /opt/rstudio-pm/bin/license-manager status
Activating your offline license:
Workbench
- Enter the output in the app located here. This will deactivate the license on our end.
- On your server run the following:
sudo rstudio-server license-manager activate-offline-request <product-key> - Enter the output in the app located here. The app will respond with some activation XML, which you can use in the next step.
- Paste that code into an activation file on your server, then run:
sudo rstudio-server license-manager activate-offline <full/path/to/activation-file> - Restart the server with this command:
sudo rstudio-server restart
Then, to check the status of the license, run this command:
sudo rstudio-server license-manager status
Connect
sudo /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/license-manager activate-offline-request <product-key>- Enter the output of steps 1 and 2 on the app located here. The app will respond with some activation XML, which you can use in the next step.
- Paste that code into an activation file on your server, then run:
sudo /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/license-manager activate-offline </full/path/to/activation-file> sudo systemctl stop rstudio-connectsudo systemctl start rstudio-connect
Then, to check the status of the license, run this command:
sudo /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/license-manager status-offline
Package Manager
sudo /opt/rstudio-pm/bin/license-manager activate-offline-request <product-key>- Enter the output of steps 1 and 2 on the app located here. The app will respond with some activation XML, which you can use in the next step.
- Paste that code into an activation file on your server, then run:
sudo /opt/rstudio-pm/bin/license-manager activate-offline <activation-file> sudo stop rstudio-pmsudo start rstudio-pm
Then, to check the status of the license, run this command:
sudo /opt/rstudio-pm/bin/license-manager status-offline
Activating your floating license:
Workbench
sudo rsp-license-server activate <product-key>
sudo rsp-license-server start
Then, to check the floating license activation, run this command:
sudo rsp-license-server activation-status
Connect
sudo connect-license-server activate <product-key>
sudo connect-license-server start
Then, to check the floating license activation, run this command:
sudo connect-license-server activation-status
Network
Your Posit Workbench/Connect/Package manager suite will have IP addresses and/or DNS names contained within each configuration file. These configuration files may also refer to proxies, databases, storage mediums, and/or authentication servers. All of these IP addresses will need to remain the same or be modified within these configuration files to work accordingly with the new virtual network.
Database
When moving your database server across to a new cloud provider, it is important to ensure that your database IP addressing & authentication credentials remain the same for each database, as well as the host itself. If any of this information is updated, then you will need to update your Posit Workbench/Connect/Package Manager/proxy configuration accordingly.
Proxy
When moving your proxy server across to a new cloud provider, it is crucial to ensure that your proxy configuration & routing algorithm will work within the new environment. More often than not, your proxy configuration will only need to be modified if any IP addresses were to change on the hosts that exist behind it. If there is any network information that changes, your proxy configuration will need to be modified also.
Authentication
Depending on the type of authentication mechanism that you use, you will need to ensure that any dependencies that exist on your Authentication server, or authentication provider, are met by your Posit Workbench/Connect/Package Manager configuration files.
Support Ticket
If you still have issues after completing the above, you can always lodge a support ticket, where our group of friendly, and incredibly knowledgeable staff can assist with any issues that you may be having. You can submit a ticket here: