Update Portainer on your VPS

How to update the Portainer Container on your VPS.

Overview

This Tutorial covers:

  • Updating your Portainer Container on your VPS

Connect to your VPS

First of all login to your VPS, I'm using puty for this.

Stop the running Portainer container

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docker stop portainer

Remove the old Portainer container

your data volume will remain intact:

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docker rm portainer

Pull the latest Portainer image

Community Editor LTS:

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docker pull portainer/portainer-ce:lts

Business Editon:

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docker pull portainer/portainer-ee:lts

Recreate and start the Portainer container

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docker run -d \
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-p 8000:8000 \
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-p 9443:9443 \
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--name=portainer \
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--restart=awlays \
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-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
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-v portainer_data:/data \
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portainer/portainer-ce:lts

Verify the update

open your browser and navigate to

  • HTTPS: https://your_vps_ip:9443
  • HTTP: http://your_vps_ip:9000

Check the bottom-left corner of the Portainer interface to comfirm the new version number.