Commit 4014e3a3 authored by Kati Paizee's avatar Kati Paizee

Merge branch 'omnibus-2994-convert-docker-ce-to-ee-docs' into 'master'

Document updating CE container to EE container

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!82475
parents 12e0fc1e 70283123
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If you have used [tags](#use-tagged-versions-of-gitlab) instead, you'll need
to first edit `docker-compose.yml`.
### Convert Community Edition to Enterprise Edition
You can convert an existing Docker-based GitLab Community Edition (CE) container
to a GitLab [Enterprise Edition](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) (EE) container
using the same approach as [updating the version](#update).
We recommend you convert from the same version of CE to EE (for example, CE 14.1 to EE 14.1).
This is not explicitly necessary, and any standard upgrade (for example, CE 14.0 to EE 14.1) should work.
The following steps assume that you are upgrading the same version.
1. Take a [backup](#back-up-gitlab).
1. Stop the current CE container, and remove or rename it.
1. To create a new container with GitLab EE,
replace `ce` with `ee` in your `docker run` command or `docker-compose.yml` file.
However, reuse the CE container name, port and file mappings, and version.
## Back up GitLab
You can create a GitLab backup with:
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script, start the application and check its status.
- [Omnibus CE to EE](package/convert_to_ee.md) - Follow this guide to update your Omnibus
GitLab Community Edition to the Enterprise Edition.
- [Docker CE to EE](../install/docker.md#convert-community-edition-to-enterprise-edition) -
Follow this guide to update your GitLab Community Edition container to an Enterprise Edition container.
### Enterprise to Community Edition
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