Upgrading Plex when running a Docker container

calendar May 12, 2022 nav_categories Tech nav_categories Application nav_tags plex nav_tags docker nav_tags upgrade nav_tags update

When running Plex in a Docker container, you can't actually upgrade/update the Docker image, but rather, you simply redeploy the container with a newer image.

My plex.yaml file:

version: '2'
services:
  plex:
    container_name: plex
    image: plexinc/pms-docker:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TZ=America/Denver
      - PLEX_CLAIM=claim-randomstring
    networks:
      homenet:
        ipv4_address: 192.168.1.220
    hostname: PlexServer
    volumes:
      - /mnt/plex:/config
      - /mnt/.plextranscode:/transcode
      - /mnt/videos:/data
networks:
  homenet:
    external: true

Steps to redeploy newer version of Plex

Assuming we're running the docker-compose command from the same directory as the plex.yaml file.

docker-compose -f ./plex.yaml pull plex
Pulling plex ... done

Once that is done, we can use the same command that we originally used to deploy Plex.

docker-compose -f ./plex.yaml up -d
Creating plex ... done

References

Docker Hub - plexinc/pms-docker https://hub.docker.com/r/plexinc/pms-docker/tags

Docker - docs https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/pull/