Updating on Docker Standalone

Always match the agent version to the Portainer Server version. In other words, when you're installing or updating to Portainer 2.27.2 make sure all of the agents are also on version 2.27.2.

Updating your Portainer Server

This article assumes that you used our recommended deployment scripts.

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.

docker stop portainer
docker rm portainer

Now that you have stopped and removed the old version of Portainer, you must ensure that you have the most up to date version of the image locally. You can do this with a docker pull command:

docker pull portainer/portainer-ee:lts

Finally, deploy the updated version of Portainer:

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-ee:lts

To provide your own SSL certs you may use --sslcert and --sslkey flags as below to provide the certificate and key files. The certificate file needs to be the full chain and in PEM format. For example, for Business Edition:

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-ee:lts --sslcert /path/to/cert/portainer.crt --sslkey /path/to/cert/portainer.key

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.

When the deployment is finished, go to https://your-server-address:9443 or http://your-server-address:9000 and log in. You should notice that the update notification has disappeared and the version number has been updated.

Agent-only update

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

docker stop portainer_agent
docker rm portainer_agent

Next, pull the updated version of the image:

docker pull portainer/agent:lts

Finally, start the agent with the updated image:

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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