From Community Edition 7.9 to Enterprise Edition 7.9

This guide assumes you have a correctly configured and tested installation of GitLab Community Edition 7.9. If you run into any trouble or if you have any questions please contact us at support@gitlab.com.

0. Backup

Make a backup just in case things go south: (With MySQL, this may require granting “LOCK TABLES” privileges to the GitLab user on the database version)

cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create RAILS_ENV=production

1. Stop server 

sudo service gitlab stop

2. Get the EE code 

cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H git remote add ee https://gitlab.com/subscribers/gitlab-ee.git
sudo -u git -H git fetch --all
sudo -u git -H git checkout 7-9-stable-ee

3. Update config files

  • Make /home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml same as /home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml.example but with your settings.

4. Install libs, migrations, etc. 

cd /home/git/gitlab

# MySQL
sudo -u git -H bundle install --without development test postgres --deployment

#PostgreSQL
sudo -u git -H bundle install --without development test mysql --deployment

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:clean assets:precompile cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production

5. Start application 

sudo service gitlab start
sudo service nginx restart

6. Check application status

Check if GitLab and its environment are configured correctly:

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

To make sure you didn’t miss anything run a more thorough check with:

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production

If all items are green, then congratulations upgrade complete!

Things went wrong? Revert to previous version (Community Edition 7.9)

1. Revert the code to the previous version 

cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H git checkout 7-9-stable

2. Restore from the backup: 

cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:restore RAILS_ENV=production