Upgrade from gitlab-ce 8.0.3-ce.1 to latest

Hello friends,
I am looking forward to upgrade the gitlabs-8.0.3-ce.1 to latest stable version.
Points to consider
Current instance is installed on bare-metal centos7
I want to upgrade this to latest stable release.
Also looking forward to put this on docker.

Kindly guide me with appropriate approach doing this.

Regards

Hi,

A suggested path could be

• install gitlab-ee 8.0.3 (https://packages.gitlab.com/app/gitlab/gitlab-ee/search?q=8.0.3&filter=all&filter=all&dist=ubuntu) on a Ubuntu host
  (docker images are based on ubuntu)
  (install ee, functions same as ce without license)
• backup using the gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create and restore onto your new host
• upgrade to latest 8… release
• upgrade to latest 9… release
• upgrade to latest 10… release

then consider moving to the dockerimage.

See
(https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore.html)
(https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/updateREADME.html)
(https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/policy/maintenance.html)
for more details.

Thanks for suggestion will get back after trying it.

Hello astrachan,

Thanks for the suggestion, this seems to be working.

what my set-up is?
Rpm based omnibus installation on centos 6.8 machine on bare machine
gitlab-ce-8.0.3
manully downloaded and upgraded through yum update to revision (gitlab-ce-8.9.9)
then migrated to gitlab-ce-9.5.9 in same way
after that migrated gitlab-ce-10.4.0
this seems to be working fine as of now on my test machine

Planning to keep it same for sake of easy upgrade and discarding idea of going with container.