# Managing your deployment

### Managing the database

You are responsible for backing up the database regularly. Cobrowse will not do this automatically in any way. See the [MongoDB docs](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/backups/) for recommendations on backup strategies. [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas) can be configured to do this automatically.

### New releases

To be notified when a new release is available (for any deployment type), please subscribe to this repo: <https://github.com/cobrowseio/cobrowse-enterprise-helm>.

Changelog notes for all releases are available: <https://github.com/cobrowseio/cobrowse-enterprise-helm/releases>. Image updates usually contain security patches.

#### Testing your deployment

A sanity test package is available as a container as part of our Enterprise software. It can be used to check a deployment was succesful. It can be used with Docker in the following way:

```
docker run -e COBROWSE_E2E_SUPERUSER_TOKEN=<super_user_token>                       \
           -e COBROWSE_E2E_BASE_URL=https://<domain> -e CI=true                     \
           -e COBROWSE_E2E_CLIENT_SDK_URL=https://<domain>/sdk-js/CobrowseIO.mjs    \
           -v $(pwd)/playwright-report:/app/playwright-report                       \
           cobrowse-integration-tests-enterprise
```

### Upgrading Cobrowse

**AWS, Azure, GCP and Docker-compose**

Our command line utility allows you to upgrade your deployment, you can use it like this:

```
npx cobrowse-enterprise upgrade <directory>
```

One you have done that, you can update your deployment via Terraform or Docker Compose as in the initial deployment.

*Note: We recommend making a database backup before upgrading to new versions*

**Helm**

To upgrade your Helm deployment use:

```
helm repo update 
helm upgrade cobrowse cobrowse-enterprise/cobrowse-enterprise
```

### Dedicated staging instance

We recommend self-hosting a separate staging instance of our software to develop against and also to test new releases before moving to production. Please contact us if you are interested.

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