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Updating Portainer on Docker Standalone

This guide will walk you trough updating Portainer in terminal. Always match the agent version to the Portainer Server version. In other words, when you're installing or updating to Portainer 2.27.9 make sure all of the agents are also on version 2.27.9.

To update to the latest version of Portainer Server, use the following commands to stop then remove the old version. Your other applications/containers will not be removed.

Portainer Documentation

Updating Portainer
  1. SSH to main Portainer machine (Overseer)
  2. Run Following Commands
docker stop portainer
docker rm portainer
docker pull portainer/portainer-ce:lts
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:lts

This will stop and remove old version and reinstalled new on. The newest version of Portainer will now be deployed on your system, using the persistent data from the previous version, and will also upgrade the Portainer database to the new version.

Updating Portainer Agent

  1. SSH to vms that run portainer agents (External vm, Internal vm)
  2. Run Following Commands
docker stop portainer_agent
docker rm portainer_agent
docker pull portainer/agent:lts
docker run -d -p 9001:9001 --name portainer_agent --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /var/lib/docker/volumes:/var/lib/docker/volumes portainer/agent:lts

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