Upgrade from 5.3 -> 7.3 using docker

MrFollies

Hello,

I'm currently running Bitbucket 5.3 under the atlassian bitbucket-server docker image.
I'd like to upgrade to the latest bitbucket and at the same time perhaps move from mysql to postgress.

Can anyone tell me if the docker images in particular allow for version upgrades and if so, are there appropriate version hops to take?

Dave Chevell

Hi @MrFollies ,

The short answer is that you shouldn’t need to do any version hops. This is largely true for versions of Bitbucket Server/Stash even further back. 

There is one caveat: starting somewhere around Bitbucket 6.x, we stopped using the built-in daemon user and moved to setting up a dedicated user account inside the container. The bitbucket user has a different UID/GID, and so on first time startup the image’s bootstrap process is likely to detect these different permissions and will set the appropriate permissions before starting the app. Depending on the size of your installation this could take a while.

As an alternative, as part of your migration process you could stop the old image, recursively set the ownership of your $BITBUCKET_HOME (which I presume is stored externally somewhere) to 2003:2003 which is the UID:GID of the built-in bitbucket user, and then start the new version of our Docker image.

Let us know how you go!

Cheers

Dave