Migrate To Bitbucket Datacenter

Marko Tomljenovic

Hello,

we will likely have the case in future that we have two Bitbucket datacenters or potentially one regular Bitbucket instance (no datacenter) and one datacenter.

Now I need to migrate all data (GIT repos and all metadata like projects, pull requests, ...) to the datacenter. An upgrade is not possible I really need to move the data to the datacenter.

Is that possible at all? What is possible and what not?

Is it done manually or is there some tool support from Atlassian/3rd party available?

Thank you

Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]

It's a manual process.  We have done a number of migrations to Bitbucket Data Center and we have had good success at getting all the data for our clients.  If you are using git-lfs or doing more advanced things with Git, your mileage may vary, though.  We have a set of tools that we wrote to do this kind of thing, but it's nothing that you couldn't do yourself.

On the Bitbucket Data Center front, I would highly recommend extensive performance testing before you go live.  Bitbucket Data Center behaves quite differently to other Data Center applications.  Just because Jira Data Center runs happily on your environment should be be used as an indicator that Bitbucket Data Center will too.  On every large Bitbucket Data Center instance that we have been involved with, we have faced the "Bitbucket is Queuing" issue. 

If your instance is large and you plan to heavily use CI/CD in your environment, I would recommend working with a Solutions Partner.  We see a wide range of use cases and can help you avoid problems.