Updating the admin console UI with the same release

How do I?
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We are trying to patch the UI of the replicated KOTS admin console after the app is installed.

We’d like to automate dynamically adding values to fields (db server names).

I download our configs using kubectl kots pull <app-slug>/<channel> --license-file /license.yaml --shared-password --config-values --namespace=default to the /root/<app-slug>/upstream directory.

When I upload our config file that’s been modified, and run kubectl kots install <app-slug>/<channel> --license-file /license.yaml --config-values config.yaml --namespace=default the response is Error: failed to parse config values: not config values

The config file is pulled directly from the kots pull command and is formatted like we have in our repo.

(I saw alternatives, like creating a new release, but for our QA team they use release ids in their validation documentation sometimes.)

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Hi @jensese, the error Error: failed to parse config values: not config values occurs when the file passed to the --config-values flag is not apiVersion: kots.io/v1beta1 and kind: ConfigValues.

In this case the config values file would be downloaded to /root/<app-slug>/upstream/userdata/config.yaml. That is the file that can be edited and passed to the --config-values flag.

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Is there a reason you’re using kots install instead of kots upload ? You might also get value from kots config set as an alternative: set config | Replicated Docs

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Thanks Dex, I was updating the wrong config file, it was a couple directories deeper than I thought.

I couldn’t quite get kots upload to work.

We automate both applying a license, and updating config values in a single command, which seemed more straightforward to me.