Write article on how to do zero downtime upgrades with the operator

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Upgrade BE nodes
Run the following command to specify a new BE image file, such as starrocks/be-ubuntu:latest:

kubectl -n starrocks patch starrockscluster starrockscluster-sample --type='merge' -p '{"spec":{"starRocksBeSpec":{"image":"starrocks/be-ubuntu:latest"}}}'

Upgrade FE nodes
Run the following command to specify a new FE image file, such as starrocks/fe-ubuntu:latest:

kubectl -n starrocks patch starrockscluster starrockscluster-sample --type='merge' -p '{"spec":{"starRocksFeSpec":{"image":"starrocks/fe-ubuntu:latest"}}}'

Note

The upgrade process lasts for a while. You can run the command kubectl -n starrocks get pods to view the upgrade progress.

Note

In flight SQL statements may need to be re-submitted to StarRocks due to bouncing the containers during the upgrade process.