Issue
How to upgrade from CloudLinux 7 to 8?
Environment
- CloudLinux OS 7/8
Solution
At the moment, there are two ways to get CloudLinux 8.
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The first one is to deploy a new CloudLinux 8 server and migrate the user data manually. To migrate CloudLinux settings, use this article:
How to Install CloudLinux 8/9 and migrate users and CloudLinux settings?
- The second option is to use our ELevate project.
The CloudLinux ELevate project is currently in stable release. https://blog.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux-elevate-stable-version-now-released
Note: At the moment, only updating from CloudLinux 7 to CloudLinux 8 on systems with cPanel, Plesk, and no-panel systems is supported.
More information can be found here.
Comments
6 comments
Definitely yes.
There will be some limitations and the most critical one - 3rd party packages installed from other than CloudLinux/cPanel repositories.
The ELevate with cPanel support was not released yet, we are planning to release it to beta in a few days. And you are welcome to our community forum which is a better place to talk to other members. See you there.
https://blog.cloudlinux.com/elevate-plan-your-cloudlinux-7-to-8-migration-now-including-cpanel
Beta and Stable release timeline
The current Beta release is ready to be used in your testing environment. During the upcoming two months, we’ll be focused on fixing reported issues and gathering feedback from this release. The Stable release will go out in June 2023 barring any major problems being discovered.
Are you planning on having CloudLinux Elevate fully ready before cPanel stops supporting CL7 on June 30, 2024 so we can upgrade to CL8 without migrating everything to a new server?
That sounds reasonable - as long as we will get warnings.
Has anyone successfully used Elevate yet in a production environment? We have a CPanel server running CL7.9 with 110 websites/user accounts and this is getting a little worrying about how to easily move forward / upgrade.
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