Hello and sorry for my english,
I am upgrading gitlab, first i migrated to new OS, to redhat 9 with same gitlab version : migration is OK.
Now, i want to upgrade gitlab from v17.7.7-ee to 18.10.3-ee.0.el
When i do ‘dnf update’, redhat 9 it offer this upgrade. I can do without worries or it can brake something ?
thanks
If you do dnf update it will break Gitlab most likely because of not following the upgrade path. See: Upgrade Path
Which shows you having to do upgrades to 17.8.7, 17.11.7, 18.2.8, 18.5.5, 18.8.9 and then 18.10.3.
So the correct way is:
dnf install gitlab-ee-17.8.7
to get to that version on the upgrade path, and then repeat for each version after that. Remember, Gitlab has database migrations and they all have to finish before you upgrade to the next version. If you start the next upgrade before the database migrations have finished, you will break your Gitlab installation.
Everything is explained here: Upgrade GitLab | GitLab Docs