GitLab / GitLab Upgrade Plans

In this video, two Senior Support Engineers walk through a plan to upgrade GitLab from 14.8.6 to 14.9.5.

Architecture:
- Single node Omnibus
- Ubuntu 20.04
- JumpCloud for LDAP authentication
- Mailgun for outgoing email

Links:
- The final upgrade plan - https://gitlab.com/bcarranza/upgrade-plan/-/issues/1
- Create a GitLab upgrade plan - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/plan_your_upgrade.html
- Upgrade GitLab - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/

00:00 Introduction
00:37 Architecture and the target version
02:46 Pre-upgrade: Intro
03:17 Pre-upgrade: Version-specific upgrade notes for 14.9
05:18 Pre-upgrade: Checks
08:36 Pre-upgrade: Backups
11:26 Upgrade plan: Upgrade path
12:37 Upgrade plan: Maintenance mode & rest of the upgrade
15:15 Common problems
20:05 Post-upgrade: Checks
24:02 Post-upgrade: Runners
24:50 Rollback plan