JunOS SPACE upgrade to 16.1r2

These are my notes for upgrading JunOS SPACE from 15.2r2 to 16.1r1 or 16.1r2. They are meant to be consumed together with Juniper’s upgrade instructions. Since you are installing a fresh copy of JunOS SPACE as part of this upgrade, maybe now is also a good time to revisit some default settings. 16.1 is the …

JunOS SPACE upgrade hangs at 0%

I attempted to upgrade a JunOS SPACE instance from 15.2R1 to 15.2R2. It would sit at “upgrade process has not started” and 0%. If I changed the URI to the base, I’d be back in the SPACE GUI as if nothing had happened and I had never entered maintenance mode. This was caused by a …