Upgrade container - keeping config and data

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@tschloss

Q: how to upgrade an existing installation through Docker?

How do I manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest?

If you self-host Discourse, you occasionally need to run a manual update via the command line to get the latest security releases newest libraries. These updates are not picked up in admin/upgrade, which is why you’ll occasionally need to do this additional step. Discourse itself should be updated about twice a month, by clicking the “Update to Latest Version” button in your admin dashboard ( admin/upgrade). We do beta releases roughly once every week. Every two months we recommend SSH’ing…