- name:"`promote-db` command from `gitlab-ctl`"# The name of the feature to be deprecated
announcement_milestone:"14.5"# The milestone when this feature was first announced as deprecated.
announcement_date:"2021-11-22"# The date of the milestone release when this feature was first announced as deprecated. This should almost always be the 22nd of a month (YYYY-MM-22), unless you did an out of band blog post.
removal_milestone:"15.0"# The milestone when this feature is planned to be removed
In GitLab 14.5, we introduced the command `gitlab-ctl promote` to promote any Geo secondary node to a primary during a failover. This command replaces `gitlab-ctl promote-db` which is used to promote database nodes in multi-node Geo secondary sites. `gitlab-ctl promote-db` will continue to function as-is and be available until GitLab 15.0. We recommend that Geo customers begin testing the new `gitlab-ctl promote` command in their staging environments and incorporating the new command in their failover procedures.
