Update the Portainer container

In the previous article it was seen how to install Docker and Portainer. A fantastic option to manage Docker containers visually.

One of the parts showed how to update these containers using Portainer. Click on the Recreate button, and Portainer removes and re-creates the container, while downloading the new updated image if you wish.

Except for configuration changes from one version to another, this usually works in all containers except the Portainer itself. That’s why you have to do a manual update.

The steps to follow are easy:

• Stop the container.
• Remove the container
• Download the new image.
• Create and run the container again.

Open a terminal and type the following commands:

$ docker stop portainer
$ docker rm portainer
$ docker pull portainer/portainer-ce
$ docker run -d --name=portainer --hostname=portainer --network=host --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data -e TZ='Europe/Madrid' portainer/portainer-ce

Starting with version 2.0.0 of Portainer, the image is now named portainer-ce.

Once completed, browse http://PORTAINERIP:9000 to check that Portainer is up to date.