You can upgrade your Zulip installation to any newer version of Zulip with the
following instructions. At a high level, the strategy is to download a new
image, stop the zulip
container, and then boot it back up with the new
image. When the upgraded zulip
container boots the first time, it will run the
necessary database migrations with manage.py migrate
.
If you ever find you need to downgrade your Zulip server, you'll need to use
manage.py migrate
to downgrade the database schema manually.
All of the instructions below assume you are using the provided
docker-compose.yml
.
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(Optional) Upgrading does not delete your data, but it's generally good practice to back up your Zulip data before upgrading to make switching back to the old version simple. You can find your docker data volumes by looking at the
volumes
lines indocker-compose.yml
e.g./opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data/
.Note that
docker-zulip
did not support for Zulip's built-inrestore-backup
tool before Zulip 3.0. -
Pull the new image version, e.g. for
2.0.8
run:docker pull zulip/docker-zulip:2.0.8-0
We recommend always upgrading to the latest minor release within a major release series.
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Update this project to the corresponding
docker-zulip
version and resolve any merge conflicts indocker-compose.yml
. This is important as new Zulip releases may require additional settings to be specified indocker-compose.yml
(E.g. authentication settings formemcached
became mandatory in the2.1.2
release).Note: Do not make any changes to the database version or volume. If there is a difference in database version, leave those unchanged for now, and complete that upgrade separately after the Zulip upgrade; see the section below.
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Verify that your updated
docker-compose.yml
points to the desired image version, e.g.:zulip: image: "zulip/docker-zulip:2.0.1-0"
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You can execute the upgrade by running:
# Stops the old zulip container; this begins your downtime docker-compose stop # Boots the new zulip container; this ends your downtime docker-compose up # Deletes the old container images docker-compose rm
That's it! Zulip is now running the updated version. You can confirm you're running the latest version by running:
docker-compose exec -u zulip zulip cat /home/zulip/deployments/current/version.py
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Edit
docker-compose.yml
to comment out theimage
line, and specify the Git commit you'd like to build the zulip container from. E.g.:zulip: # image: "zulip/docker-zulip:2.0.1-0" build: context: . args: # Change these if you want to build zulip from a different repo/branch ZULIP_GIT_URL: https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git ZULIP_GIT_REF: master
You can set
ZULIP_GIT_URL
to any clone of the zulip/zulip git repository, andZULIP_GIT_REF
to be any ref name in that repository (e.g.master
or1.9.0
or445932cc8613c77ced023125248c8b966b3b7528
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Run
docker-compose build zulip
to build a Zulip Docker image from the specified Git version.
Then stop and restart the container as described in the previous section.
As of Docker Zulip 6.0-0, we have switched the volume storage from being in
directories under /opt/docker/zulip/
on the Docker host system, to using named
Docker managed volumes. In your docker-compose.yml
, you should either preserve
the previous /opt/docker/zulip/
paths for your volumes, or migrate the
contents to individual Docker volumes.
If you elect to switch to managed Docker volumes, you can copy the data out of
/opt/docker/zulip
and onto managed volumes using the following:
# Stop the containers
docker-compose stop
# Copy the data into new managed volumes:
zulip_volume_sync() { docker run -it --rm -v "/opt/docker/zulip/$1:/src" -v "$(basename "$(pwd)")_${2:$1}":/dst ubuntu:20.04 sh -c 'cd /src; cp -a . /dst' ; }
zulip_volume_sync postgresql postgresql-10
zulip_volume_sync zulip
zulip_volume_sync rabbitmq
zulip_volume_sync redis
# Edit your `docker-compose.yml` to use, e.g. `postgresql-10:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw`
# rather than `/opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw` as a volume.
$EDITOR docker-compose.yml
# Start the containers again
docker-compose start
As of Docker Zulip 6.0-0, we have upgraded the version of PostgreSQL which our docker-compose configuration uses, from PostgreSQL 10 (which is no longer supported) to PostgreSQL 14. Because the on-disk storage is not compatible between PostgreSQL versions, this requires more than simply switching which PostgreSQL docker image is used — the data must be dumped from PostgreSQL 10, and imported into a running PostgreSQL 14.
You should not adjust the image
of the database when upgrading to Zulip Server
6.0.
After upgrading the zulip
service, using the usual steps, to the
zulip/docker-zulip:6.0-0
tag, you can upgrade the PostgreSQL image version by
running the included ./upgrade-postgresql
tool. This will create a
Docker-managed volume named postgresql-14
to store its data, and will adjust
the docker-compose.yml
file to use that.
You can perform this step either before or after updating to use Docker volumes
(above). In either case, the updated docker-compose.yml
will use a new Docker
volume for the upgraded PostgreSQL 14 data.
The upgrade-postgresql
tool requires docker-compose
2.1.1 or higher.
If the tool does not work, you have too old a docker-compose
, or you would
prefer to perform the steps manually, see the steps below. These instructions
assume that you have not changed the default Postgres data path
(/opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data
) in your docker-compose.yml
. If you have
changed it, please replace all occurrences of
/opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data
with your path, or volume.
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Make a backup of your Zulip Postgres data directory.
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Stop the Zulip container:
docker-compose stop zulip
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Create a new (upgraded) Postgres container using a different data directory:
docker run -d \ --name postgresnew \ -e POSTGRES_DB=zulip \ -e POSTGRES_USER=zulip \ -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zulip \ -v "$(basename "$(pwd)")_postgresql-14:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw" \ zulip/zulip-postgresql:14
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Use
pg_dumpall
to dump all data from the existing Postgres container to the new Postgres container, and reset the password (for SCRAM-SHA-256 auth upgrade):docker-compose exec database pg_dumpall -U zulip | \ docker exec -i postgresnew psql -U zulip echo "ALTER USER zulip WITH PASSWORD 'REPLACE_WITH_SECURE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD';" | docker exec -i postgresnew psql -U zulip
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Stop and remove both Postgres containers:
docker-compose rm --stop database docker stop postgresnew docker rm postgresnew
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Edit your
docker-compose.yml
to use thezulip/zulip-postgresql:14
image for thedatabase
container. -
Edit your
docker-compose.yml
to providepostgresql-14:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw
as thevolume
for thedatabase
service. -
Start Zulip up again:
docker-compose up
If you are using an earlier version of galexrt/docker-zulip
which used the
quay.io/galexrt/postgres-zulip-tsearchextras:latest
PostgreSQL image, you need
to run a few manual steps to upgrade to the zulip/zulip-postgresql
PostgreSQL
image (because we've significantly upgraded the major postgres version).
These instructions assume that you have not changed the default PostgreSQL data
path (/opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data
) in your docker-compose.yml
. If you
have changed it, please replace all occurences of
/opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data
with your path.
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Make a backup of your Zulip PostgreSQL data directory.
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Stop all Zulip containers, except the postgres one (e.g. use
docker stop
and notdocker-compose stop
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Create a new (upgraded) PostgreSQL container using a different data directory:
docker run -d \ --name postgresnew \ -e POSTGRES_DB=zulip \ -e POSTGRES_USER=zulip \ -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zulip \ -v /opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/new:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw \ zulip/zulip-postgresql:latest
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Use
pg_dumpall
to dump all data from the existing PostgreSQL container to the new PostgreSQL container:docker-compose exec database pg_dumpall -U postgres | \ docker exec -i postgresnew psql -U postgres
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Stop and remove both PostgreSQL containers:
docker-compose rm --stop database docker rm --stop postgresnew
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Edit your
docker-compose.yml
to use thezulip/zulip-postgresql:latest
image for thedatabase
container (this is the default inzulip/docker-zulip
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Replace the old PostgreSQL data directory with upgraded data directory:
mv /opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data /opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/old mv /opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/new /opt/docker/zulip/postgresql/data
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Delete the old existing containers:
docker-compose rm
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Start Zulip up again:
docker-compose up