Lift and Shift migration

How to Use GitLab
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Hi everyone
Has anyone done a lift & shift migration of GitLab from self hosted omnibus to self hosted kubernetes?
Is it possible?
Thank you

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As far as I am aware, Gitlab can only be restored to the same version. This means:

  1. Backup from Gitlab-CE can only be restored to Gitlab-CE (same for Gitlab-EE).
  2. Version number must match, so if backup is from 16.1 it can only be restored to 16.1.
  3. Omnibus can only be restored to Omnibus or Docker restored to Docker.

In which case, attempting to backup/restore from Omnibus to a Container version, be it Docker or Kubernetes would mean that it’s not possible. Unless at least I am mistaken, but that is how it’s been explained in the past. At least for points 1 and 2 anyway being 100% correct.

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Appreciate your response, thank you so much :slight_smile:

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Hey :slight_smile:
How about restoring omnibus backup file onto kubernetes? will this work?
Thank you

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I already answered that in my post.

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Thank you, much appreciated :slight_smile:

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You’re right, apologies, my mistake :slight_smile:

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