Portainer updating VMs

7th February 2025

Super easy, once you know

Login to portainer, Live mgt

Containers, notice a column for created date. I try to update any docker image that is over 3mo

click on the container name

scroll down to Volumes and verify that the container is storing all it’s configuration and data on the host. This confirms that we won’t be loosing any information when we replace the application.

scroll back to the top and click Recreate

you will get a warning message, click the slider to Re-pull image, don’t chicken out now, Click Recreate

It may look like nothing is happening, look in the top right of the window for a swirly-bob

Soon you will notice that the created date changes to today

test your app. you will need to login again.