{"id":40290,"date":"2022-07-20T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=3985033"},"modified":"2022-07-20T19:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:03:04","slug":"how-to-update-portainer-to-the-latest-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=40290","title":{"rendered":"How to update Portainer to the latest version"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to update the Portainer container management platform to the latest version. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image: ontsunan\/Adobe Stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portainer has been, for some time, my go-to container management platform<\/a>. It\u2019s not only very powerful, but it\u2019s also quite user-friendly, and in the game of containers, that\u2019s an impressive combination.<\/p>\n

Portainer is deployed as a container itself. And with the development team frequently releasing new versions, you always want to make sure you stay on top of that. To that end, any time you log into your Portainer instance and notice that a new version is available (Figure A<\/strong>), it\u2019s time to upgrade as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Figure A<\/strong><\/p>\n

My current Portainer deployment is out of date.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because Portainer is a container, you can\u2019t just update the current deployment; instead, you have to stop and remove your current deployment and redeploy. Fortunately, you can deploy Portainer with persistent storage (as I show in How to deploy the Portainer container management tool with persistent storage<\/a>), which means when you redeploy all of your configurations and containers will remain intact.<\/p>\n

With that said, let\u2019s update Portainer to the latest version.<\/p>\n

SEE: Hiring kit: Back-end Developer<\/a> (TechRepublic Premium)<\/strong><\/p>\n

What you\u2019ll need<\/h2>\n

To follow along, you\u2019ll need a machine running Docker or Docker Community Edition. If you don\u2019t already have a Portainer instance already up, you can still deploy the latest release, just skip the first steps of stopping and removing the older instance. You\u2019ll also need a user who belongs to the docker group on your hosting server.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get to the update.<\/p>\n

How to stop and remove the current Portainer container<\/h2>\n

The first thing you must do is located the Portainer container ID with the command:<\/p>\n

docker ps -a | portainer<\/code><\/p>\n

You should see something like this in the output:<\/p>\n