Someone wrote a very nice and detailed guide, however upgrading isn't mentioned[0]

it also suggests operating under bad practices like running gitlab from /home/

I guess I could write a decent salt-formula to do all this, but I can't handle upgrading of gitlab easily, it always breaks when I take a new branch from git and run a gitlab-ctl reconfigure.

[0]: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/blob/master/insta...