gitlab-ctl stop

gitlab-ctl stop

(Note: you do not have to stop your GitLab instance to perform an upgrade)

gitlab-ctl stop puma 
gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq

Related

• gitlab-ctl start
• gitlab-ctl status

See also

• gitlab-ctl [ status | tail | reconfigure | backup-etc | restart | start | stop | service-list | registry-garbage-collect | --help ]
• Upgrade GitLab, GitLab Omnibus, GitLab logs, check_gitlab_status.sh, apt-cache madison gitlab-ee, GitLab Changelog, Batched Background Migration (BBM)