docker upgrade failure, help please. about docker-splunk HOT 5 CLOSED

Hello,
You are required to provide the password in the command line. Take a look at https://github.com/splunk/docker-splunk/blob/master/README.md. Extract is shown below

**Getting started
Use the following command to start a single instance of Splunk Enterprise:

$> docker run -it -p 8000:8000 -e 'SPLUNK_START_ARGS=--accept-license' -e 'SPLUNK_PASSWORD=' splunk-debian-9:latest start
Replace "" with the initial password that you wish to use for logging into the Splunk admin user account. You can then access Splunk at http://localhost:8000 with those credentials.

Please note, the password supplied must conform to the default Splunk Enterprise password requirements.**

Thanks
Amit

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Hi. You need to pass in a password using -e "SPLUNK_PASSWORD=". Without SPLUNK_PASSWORD in either environment variable or a default yaml, the ansible inventory script will complain, and therefore, ansible would not be able to properly generate a set of variables.

Also Splunk Upgrade is used to not run any provisioning after the container starts. You need to pass SPLUNK_UPGRADE=True to make it work.

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Please note, migration from 7.1 is not supported, and we DO NOT recommend migrating from the 7.1 container. Please understand you are going down uncharted grounds, and while you may find success in the process, your installation is no longer valid for enterprise support.

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I closed this issue as it's not a supported process or something we recommend. You're welcome to continue chatting on this issue or opening a splunk answers post, but there is no work that will change to facilitate this migration.

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I HAVE included splunk_upgrade as an environment variable in the original post. But I understand I am upgrading from 7.1 docker to 7.2.

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