# Upgrade without rebuilding having a good/ready image?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-without-rebuilding-having-a-good-ready-image/389235>\
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**Created:** [November 20, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-without-rebuilding-having-a-good-ready-image/389235 "2025-11-20T15:03:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![lejeczek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@lejeczek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lejeczek)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-without-rebuilding-having-a-good-ready-image/389235/1 "2025-11-20T15:03:57Z")

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Hi guys.

Is it possible to update to newer version without rebuilding the whole thing?

I’m thinking of a scenario where two discourse apps are virtually identical and once I have a new image ready - off any one of the two - I could use it to deploy second discourse, having all the config/params for container.

I guess left only to take care of for such container would be pg db migration?

Does that make sense and if possible, how to do it, ideally without hacking any source code?

many thanks, L.

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