We fixed part of the root issue by restarting GitLab automatically when we configure a server as master, preventing it from continuing with the staging data. Th

We fixed part of the root issue by restarting GitLab automatically when we configure a server as master, preventing it from continuing with the staging data. The staging data was created automatically by gitlab-ctl. I agree that this is confusing and created the item: "Why did GitLab start when it shouldn't?" in the postmortem. Thanks for raising this point.