Update storage settings to allow extra values per shard28447-hybrid-repository-storages

This will be necessary when adding gitaly settings. This version
doesn't make any functional changes, but allows us to include this
breaking change in 9.0 and add the needed extra settings in the future
with backwards compatibility

1 files changed, 64 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/update/8.17-to-9.0.md b/doc/update/8.17-to-9.0.md
index 7b934ecd87a..4cc8be752c4 100644
--- a/doc/update/8.17-to-9.0.md
+++ b/doc/update/8.17-to-9.0.md
@@ -1,3 +1,66 @@
+#### Configuration changes for repository storages
+
+This version introduces a new configuration structure for repository storages.
+Update your current configuration as follows, replacing with your storages names and paths:
+
+**For installations from source**
+
+1. Update your `gitlab.yml`, from
+
+  ```yaml
+  repositories:
+    storages: # You must have at least a 'default' storage path.
+      default: /home/git/repositories
+      nfs: /mnt/nfs/repositories
+      cephfs: /mnt/cephfs/repositories
+  ```
+
+  to
+
+  ```yaml
+  repositories:
+    storages: # You must have at least a 'default' storage path.
+      default:
+        path: /home/git/repositories
+      nfs:
+        path: /mnt/nfs/repositories
+      cephfs:
+        path: /mnt/cephfs/repositories
+  ```
+
+**For Omnibus installations**
+
+1. Upate your `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`, from
+
+  ```ruby
+  git_data_dirs({
+    "default" => "/var/opt/gitlab/git-data",
+    "nfs" => "/mnt/nfs/git-data",
+    "cephfs" => "/mnt/cephfs/git-data"
+  })
+  ```
+
+  to
+
+  ```ruby
+  git_data_dirs({
+    "default" => { "path" => "/var/opt/gitlab/git-data" },
+    "nfs" => { "path" => "/mnt/nfs/git-data" },
+    "cephfs" => { "path" => "/mnt/cephfs/git-data" }
+  })
+  ```
+
+#### Git configuration
+
+Configure Git to generate packfile bitmaps (introduced in Git 2.0) on
+the GitLab server during `git gc`.
+
+```sh
+cd /home/git/gitlab
+
+sudo -u git -H git config --global repack.writeBitmaps true
+```
+
 #### Nginx configuration
 
 Ensure you're still up-to-date with the latest NGINX configuration changes:
@@ -12,7 +75,7 @@ git diff origin/8-17-stable:lib/support/nginx/gitlab-ssl origin/9-0-stable:lib/s
 git diff origin/8-17-stable:lib/support/nginx/gitlab origin/9-0-stable:lib/support/nginx/gitlab
 ```
 
-If you are using Strict-Transport-Security in your installation to continue using it you must enable it in your Nginx 
+If you are using Strict-Transport-Security in your installation to continue using it you must enable it in your Nginx
 configuration as GitLab application no longer handles setting it.
 
 If you are using Apache instead of NGINX please see the updated [Apache templates].