Commit e26200ac authored by Katrin Leinweber's avatar Katrin Leinweber

Document downtime expectation for restarts

parent 044c1e81
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Depending on how you installed GitLab, there are different methods to restart
its services.
NOTE:
A short downtime is expected for all methods.
## Omnibus installations
If you have used the [Omnibus packages](https://about.gitlab.com/install/) to install GitLab, then
......@@ -90,8 +93,8 @@ application that powers Omnibus GitLab, makes sure that all things like director
permissions, and services are in place and in the same shape that they were
initially shipped.
It also restarts GitLab components where needed, if any of their
configuration files have changed.
It also [restarts GitLab components](#how-to-restart-gitlab)
where needed, if any of their configuration files have changed.
If you manually edit any files in `/var/opt/gitlab` that are managed by Chef,
running reconfigure reverts the changes AND restarts the services that
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