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Updating Containers in Container Manager

Last updated on 21 October 2024

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New guide for Container Manager25/04/2023
Historic updates at the end of the guide

The new Container Manager makes updating container images super easy, it can all be done via the UI and no need to SSH into your NAS for updating Docker Compose projects!

Let’s Begin

Head over to the Image tab in Container Manager, in the list of images you will see updates next to the ‘Tag’ field.

You will only be notified of updates for images that you have selected a general tag, such as Latest or Nightly, if you have a specific version number it will remain as is. It is also worth noting that images from GitHub or other sources outside of hub.docker.com will not receive update notices.

Click on the ‘Update available’ button next to the images you want to update, then the screen below will appear, click the Update button.

Then confirm the Update and you will see the image download in the main list.

Container Manager will automatically stop and update your running containers.

Sometimes you may find the container doesn’t get reset correctly with the new image. If this is the case take the extra couple of steps. Stop the container you are updating, then from the top menu click Action > Reset.

Your container will now be running the latest image.

Extra step for Containers part of a Project

If you update a container within a Project it can cause the overall project to fail if that container relies on another. For example updating Gluetun will break the network connection for containers running through it.

Go to the Project tab and select the project you wish to rebuild, then from the Action menu press Stop.

Next click the Action Menu again but this time select build – This will remove the containers and then rebuild them with the updated images.

That’s it, going forward you can easily update containers using this method.



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Published inDockerSynologyUpdating Containers 7.2

39 Comments

  1. gizmomelb gizmomelb

    noob suggestion here again – first time accessing this page of course I have no containers and had a slight freak out – please update and point out the obvious about ADDING containers, or possibly move the ‘updating the containers’ section to after actually adding containers – just to stop noobs from me panicing 🙂 thank you.

    • Dr_Frankenstein Dr_Frankenstein

      Ha, don’t follow the left menu in order, which ever order I put it in someone manages to then ask to move it around again lol 😛

  2. 0w1 0w1

    Hey there! Following the steps to upload the QBT/Gluetun container. I stop > build the project but it does not pull an updated image. It just restarts the containers and they remain un-updated. Is there any way to force them to pull the latest version?

    • Dr_Frankenstein Dr_Frankenstein

      If you are pulling the latest image updates it should use them when doing as you mentioned. Are the images set to ‘latest’ in the compose

  3. Drew Drew

    Man, you really have thought through everything! I just accidentally updated Glutun using Container Manager in Synology DSM, and then I couldn’t get the qbittorrent container started again. Rebuilt the project and everything is working again! Cheers

    • DG DG

      Came here to say essentially the same thing. Updated Qbittorrent via Container Manager and then was getting a “no such container” error when trying to restart the project. Stopping and rebuilding fixed it. Thanks, great guide.

  4. Helft Helft

    Love your website, referred to it many many times.

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