- title: "`promote-to-primary-node` 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. removal_milestone: "15.0" # The milestone when this feature is planned to be removed breaking_change: true body: | # Do not modify this line, instead modify the lines below. 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-to-primary-node` which was only usable for single-node Geo sites. `gitlab-ctl promote-to-primary-node` 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. stage: "Enablement" tiers: [Premium, Ultimate] issue_url: "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/345207" documentation_url: # (optional) This is a link to the current documentation page image_url: # (optional) This is a link to a thumbnail image depicting the feature video_url: # (optional) Use the youtube thumbnail URL with the structure of https://img.youtube.com/vi/UNIQUEID/hqdefault.jpg