Update a container

General
1

Hello,

I Would like to know how we can do to update a container ?

For exemple, if I have a Tomcat 8.1, how can I update to Tomcat 8.2 ?

It necessary to create a new container ? If it’s that, how can we applied parameters in the new container ?

Thank’s for your responses :slight_smile:

Rom

2

Yes the ideal is to create a new image, stop / kill / rm the old container, and spawn a new one.

One of the reasons the 1.12 swarm stuff is really cool is that if you have a service it will do a rolling update of this for you if you need to change image.

e.g.:

/ # docker service create --name srv --replicas 2 nginx:1.10-alpine
49t3535yube7lucnux7cudbyv

/ # docker service ls
ID            NAME  REPLICAS  IMAGE              COMMAND
49t3535yube7  srv   2/2       nginx:1.10-alpine

/ # docker service update --image nginx:1.10.1-alpine srv
srv

/ # docker service ls
ID            NAME  REPLICAS  IMAGE                COMMAND
49t3535yube7  srv   1/2       nginx:1.10.1-alpine

/ # docker service ls
ID            NAME  REPLICAS  IMAGE                COMMAND
49t3535yube7  srv   2/2       nginx:1.10.1-alpine

/ # docker service ps srv
ID                         NAME       IMAGE                NODE                                          DESIRED STATE  CURRENT STATE            ERROR
c2oo1k3wwzqciyh41euv89usr  srv.1      nginx:1.10.1-alpine  ip-192-168-34-232.us-west-1.compute.internal  Running        Running 6 seconds ago
4n0hou4fxrdvrkyvihysm2aln   \_ srv.1  nginx:1.10-alpine    ip-192-168-34-238.us-west-1.compute.internal  Shutdown       Shutdown 9 seconds ago
64lmb9hmci32dcc1mucwp3ddt  srv.2      nginx:1.10.1-alpine  ip-192-168-33-185.us-west-1.compute.internal  Running        Running 11 seconds ago
3gq3nk9puwan4brrrpk8jddmh   \_ srv.2  nginx:1.10-alpine    ip-192-168-34-237.us-west-1.compute.internal  Shutdown       Shutdown 14 seconds ago