odoo17-to-18-community-upgrade-docker

July 28th 2025

I couldn't find clear explanations and I don't have a devl odoo env. This is a description of the actions I did to upgrade a odoo community v17 to v18 with standard docker containers

0. to avoid any module problem, remove the custom V17 installations:

   • in the odoo env, go to apps, look for all modules installed and remove the custom ones. You may find the list in your ./custom (the folder which links to /mnt/extra-addons in your docker-compose)

1. upgrade your current env to last V17 version (see in V17 folder):

   • with provided latest V17 Dokerfile, entrypoint.sh and wait-for-psql.py, create new image, run existing V17 on a docker from that new image

     • see in V17 folder the build command and docker-compose.yml odoo.conf related
     • remember on which docker runs your pstgres (in my case postgres-20250725-mylucdatabase)

2. Create a Migration env based on V18 called V18-MIG (with provided latest V18 Dokerfile):

   a) update your V18-MIG Dockerfile

   - add vim, curl, git, unzip in the early installation
   - create a directory for OpenUpgrade scripts (line 95)
   - add the install of openupgradelib (line 96)
   - add the reference to directory /var/lib/odoo/OpenUpgrade (line 98)
   

   b) update your V18-MIG entrypoint.sh

   - you need to add the migration instruction (see at the end) 
   

   c) create or update you V18-MIG docker-compose.yml

   - you need to run once only (==> no restart)
   - you need to add reference to the local ./OpenUpgrade
   

   d) update your V18-MIG odoo.conf with references to the running postgresql

   - you need to reference your V17 postgresql running docker and the db_name to migrate
   - you need to add variables
   

   e) download the OCA OpenUpgrade Scripts in your V18-MIG folder

    - download and unzip or git clone the OpenUpgrade V18 env to the local folder (in my case ./OpenUpgrade/ )
   

   e) run the migration:

    - Build your image for migration (see command in build.odoo.image.txt)
    - launch the docker (docker-compose up -d) 
    - monitor the logs (tail -f ./logs/odoo.log)
   

3. Create a V18 env based on V18 (see in V18 folder):

   • Get the latest V18 Dokerfile, entrypoint.sh and wait-for-psql.py
   • copy the odoo-filestore content to the new V18 folder
   • Build your docker image
   • Create your docker-compose.yml with only the odoo service (postgres already running)
   • run the new V18 docker (docker-compose up -d)
   • monitor the logs (tail -f ./logs/odoo.log)

links : odoo Docker images : https://hub.docker.com/_/odoo OCA Openupgrade : https://github.com/OCA/OpenUpgrade/tree/18.0

Please note that for the migration purpose, I run postgres on 5444 port and expose odoo on 8569 (you may keep you 5432/8069 usual ports)

This is provided as indication only, HTH, best, Luc