Upgrading AEM to 6.5

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Recently I was involved in a project to upgrade AEM from version 6.2 to 6.5.

As you can imagine there were several things to be considered for the upgrade. AEM has updated a lot of their features and libraries since 6.2, OAK repository changes, a bunch of /etc functionality relocations (blueprints, rolloutconfigs, contexthub, segments, tags, designs, among others).

On this series of posts, I want to describe the steps I followed to perform the In-Place upgrade.

The first thing that I would like to say is: this is not a recipe, this is just information on the approach I took.

First takeaway: if you are in a similar upgrade situation, these posts might help you identify the approach that you could take to perform yours. I read a bunch of documentation, posts, and information, in my case I used different ideas from different sources to accomplish the goal.

List of related posts: (Updated on August 28, 2020)

Where to Start (AEM 6.5 Upgrade)?
Process Breakdown (AEM 6.5 Upgrade)
Development & QA (AEM 6.5 Upgrade)
Pre-upgrade Maintenance (Post in progress)
Upgrade Procedure (Post in progress)
Post-upgrade Checks (Post in progress)

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