# Upgrade roadmap

Follow these steps to perform an upgrade of your SonarQube Server:

1. [determine-path](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.6/setup-and-upgrade/upgrade-the-server/determine-path "mention").
2. [testing](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.6/setup-and-upgrade/upgrade-the-server/testing "mention").
3. Back up the SonarQube database.
4. [upgrade](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.6/setup-and-upgrade/upgrade-the-server/upgrade "mention").
5. [post-upgrade-steps](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.6/setup-and-upgrade/upgrade-the-server/post-upgrade-steps "mention").

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We highly recommend to [setting-up-autoscaling](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.6/setup-and-upgrade/deploy-on-kubernetes/setting-up-autoscaling "mention") during long-running upgrades.
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