We are currently on GitLab 6.2.1-0 version and we would like to upgrade to 8.5 to get the newest features. Is it ok to upgrade straight to 8.5 or should we take small steps? We are not using GitLab CI FYI.
Appreciate your inputs
We are currently on GitLab 6.2.1-0 version and we would like to upgrade to 8.5 to get the newest features. Is it ok to upgrade straight to 8.5 or should we take small steps? We are not using GitLab CI FYI.
Appreciate your inputs
What is you installation type Omnibus or Source method?
Plz give O/P of
(omnibus)
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info --trace
(Source method)
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production
Note: u can erase ur server hostname from the o/p for security reasons.
Looks like the installation was done by Bitnami method by an ex-employee
I am looking for an easier installation method for future upgrades. Is it easier to do by Omnibus installer?
System information
System: CentOS 5.8
Current User: git
Using RVM: no
Ruby Version: 1.9.3p448
Gem Version: 1.8.24
Bundler Version:1.3.5
Rake Version: 0.9.2.2
GitLab information
Version: 6.2.1
Revision: f2a77a8
Directory: /opt/gitlab-6.2.1-0/apps/gitlab/htdocs
DB Adapter: mysql2
URL: http://xx.xxx.com
HTTP Clone URL: http://xx.xxxx.com/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL: git@xxxx.xxxx.com:some-project.git
Using LDAP: no
Using Omniauth: no
GitLab Shell
Version: 1.7.1
Repositories: /opt/gitlab-6.2.1-0/apps/gitlab/repositories/
Hooks: /opt/gitlab-6.2.1-0/apps/gitlab/gitlab-shell/hooks/
Git: /opt/gitlab-6.2.1-0/git/bin/git
Hi
Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for providing the info. Few things before embarking on the Upgrade.
Since your installation is on source method Gitlab 6.2. Please try to do the following.
14 A. Till 6.9 GitLab creates git user as Normal user , ie., userid < 500 (RHEL/CentOS), after 7.1 we need to change git user type to system user, other wise git clone problem would arise.
14 B. run following commands to modify user ;
groupmod -g 496 git (chose available user id if 496 is not available)
usermod -u 496 -g 496 -d /var/opt/gitlab -s /bin/sh git
chown 496:496 gitlab-shell.log
chown git:git application.log
chown git:git production.log
chown git:git satellites.log
chmod 0666 production.log
Edited: Added Steps 14 A & B
Hi Ershad,
Apologies for the delayed reply. I highly appreciate you providing detailed steps based on your experience. The upgrade process definitely looks not that easy. We do not have a whole lot of user base, hardly 20 active users and around 10GB of data. If we do not care of merge requests history, but of course the commit history is very important, is it a safer option to spin up gitlab 8.5 version on a different box and port the git repositories over to the new server. I am sure if we were to port the entire old data to the newer version, system will go mad. Another reason of asking this is to implement a cleaner install using chef / ansible provisioning system, so it can make the future upgrades manageable.
Hi
For making the further Upgrades smoother and easily manageable the system has to be converted to Omnibus method of Installation.
Yes, Indeed it is a difficult task to convert it to Omnibus and upgrade it to Latest version.
Yes it is indeed safe to convert and upgrade to Latest, all the data will be restored with out any loss.
I have already told you try this on a separate system and upon success you can do it on the actual server.
10 GB data is not too large, the system could handle it during the backup and restore you could do it without problem.
yum
by running an update and upgradeThanks Ershad and Kelvin, I will try out your recommendations and keep posted how that goes, thanks much…
Hi Ahmad,
I needed help on gitlab CE upgrade. My installation is source method with MySQL. I upgraded from 6.2 to 7.14. The issue is I don’t see these two tables - user_projects and user_groups in upgraded db. I was looking for online documentation to see if that’s expected or my db migration was not clean.
Karan
Hi Karan
Please run this following command to find out if your db migration was successful.
(omnibus installation)
$sudo gitlab-rake db:migrate:status --trace
Thanks Ahmad.
Below is the trace op.
# sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake db:migrate:status RAILS_ENV=production --trace
** Invoke db:migrate:status (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Invoke db:load_config (first_time)
** Execute db:load_config
** Execute db:migrate:status
database: gitlabhq_production
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Hello
I’m on 7.14 Source install and I’d like to do exactly as you say to convert to omnibus. But in the link to the packages I cannot find a 7.14 omnibus RPM (for el7).
Is one available or is a new update method now necessary?
thanks
r.
Thank you. None of those are named ‘omnibus’, unlike some other releases are specifically named. Are all of them omnibus releases even though they are not explicitly named that way?
Yes all of them are omnibus artifacts, you can download and install on a test machine to verify, later on proceed with actual server.