We are upgrading the operating system on our Postgres database clusters

1 · · Aug. 12, 2022, 1:24 p.m.
Continuing on the theme of improving the performance and reliability of GitLab.com, we have another step we will be taking for our clusters of Postgres database nodes. These nodes have been running on Ubuntu 16.04 with extended security maintenance patches and it is now time to get them to a more current version. Usually, this kind of upgrade is a behind-the-scenes event, but there is an underlying technicality that will require us to take a maintenance window to do the upgrade (more on that bel...