Upgrade from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Data Center

It’s your Bitbucket license that determines the type of Bitbucket you have: Server or Data Center. Bitbucket will auto-detect the license type when you enter your license key, and automatically unlock any license-specific features.

To upgrade from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Data Center, you will need a Data Center license. You can either purchase a full Data Center license or get a free trial license for 30 days. When your 30-day trial finishes, you’ll have the option to purchase a Data Center license and carry on using Bitbucket Data Center without losing any data you’ve created during the trial. If you decide Bitbucket Data Center is not for you, you can easily revert to your existing Server license.

See our Supported platforms page for information on the database, Java, and operating systems you'll be able to use.

Apps extend what your team can do with Atlassian applications, so it's important to make sure that your team can still use their apps after migrating to Data Center. When you switch to Data Center, you'll be required to switch to the Data Center compatible version of your apps, if one is available. 

See Evaluate apps for Data Center migration for more information. 

To use Bitbucket Data Center, you must:

• Have a Data Center license (you can purchase a Data Center license or create an evaluation license at my.atlassian.com)

• Use a supported external database, operating system and Java version

• Use OAuth authentication if you have application links to other Atlassian products (such as Confluence)

To run Bitbucket in a cluster, you’ll need to meet additional requirements, like setting up a shared home directory or load balancer. You can learn more about it after going to ‘Set up your cluster’.