Managing Artifacts with Heist

Artifact Upgrades

By default, Heist will not upgrade the artifact on a target. If you want to ensure the artifact is always upgraded set dynamic_upgrade. If this argument is set, the artifact will be updated in two situations:

• On startup of Heist, if a target already has an artifact deployed it will upgrade if it detects a newer version.

• While the Heist process is running, it will attempt to check if there is a newer version and will upgrade the artifact. This check is done, by default every 60 seconds, but can be adjusted with the conf checkin_time.