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I've added information about how to upgrade apps during platform upgrades in: <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Containers/StarlingXAppsInternals#Upgrade_considerations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Containers/StarlingXAppsInternals#Upgrade_considerations</a></span>
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Fixed the incorrect information in upgrades/auto_update section, the metadata here is used<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">after,</b> <b class="ContentPasted0">not during platform upgrades.</b></div>
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Mentioned the existence of behavior/platform_managed_apps metadata, full details in progress.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 7, 2023 5:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> starlingx-discuss <starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io><br>
<b>Subject:</b> StarlingX Apps general documentation</font>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">To all app developers out there,<span> </span></span></div>
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The only Developer refence so far is <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Containers/HowToAddNewFluxCDAppInSTX" id="LPlnk184462">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Containers/HowToAddNewFluxCDAppInSTX</a>, which focuses on building a StarlingX
 App which uses FluxCD. The focus is more on build environment so the interaction with the App Framework itself was out of scope.<br>
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In an attempt demystify the StarlingX App <-> App Framework interaction I started a new page: <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Containers/StarlingXAppsInternals" id="LPlnk386373" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Containers/StarlingXAppsInternals</a> . <span class="x_ContentPasted3" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">It
 is in no way complete work, the work is just at the beginning. The purpose would be to show examples on how to configure your app to have different behavior, explain what these behaviors are, list scenarios, general guidelines.</span></div>
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<li><span>auto update of apps<br>
</span></li><li><span>keep/reset user overrides during updates</span></li><li><span>keep/reset disabled helm charts during updates</span></li></ul>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted3" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">I believe we can enable auto update functionality for the apps, the only reason I sent an email so early is out of curiosity, want the app devs to be aware of
 the auto-update scenario and then get feedback from app devs about their app specific requirements preventing automatic update from being enabled (if any).<br>
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