How to update Plex Media Server with Portainer

I had the same problem.

Plex notified me of an update, but when I went into Portainer and restarted, Plex didn't update.

When I modified ENV variable VERSION from docker to latest, upgrade was successful!

Hi All,
I'm really new to docker and/or portainer. I got everything to work, but also see the problem that updates are not made. I restarted as mentioned from Agricola and found the following at the log:

[cont-init.d] 60-plex-update: executing... ,

Docker is used for versioning skip update check,

[cont-init.d] 60-plex-update: exited 0.

So I think it is about the ENV variable VERSION "docker" that I can see here.... mentioned from @shecky66.

And now my question How can I change that variable? ..... Thanks in advance

Sorry for that: I did not see the Post from Agricola - everything is clear now!

Docker has its own way of pulling updates/ new images. These include the underlying libraries as well. Don't change anything.

Zitat von Parador

Hi All,
I'm really new to docker and/or portainer. I got everything to work, but also see the problem that updates are not made. I restarted as mentioned from Agricola and found the following at the log:

[cont-init.d] 60-plex-update: executing... ,

Docker is used for versioning skip update check,

[cont-init.d] 60-plex-update: exited 0.

So I think it is about the ENV variable VERSION "docker" that I can see here.... mentioned from @shecky66.

And now my question How can I change that variable? ..... Thanks in advance

Sorry for that: I did not see the Post from Agricola - everything is clear now!

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Hi Parador !

I advise you to use the official Plex image (https://hub.docker.com/r/plexinc/pms-docker/) making sure to set the correct TAG.

For example, I have a Plex Pass and so use the plexpass tag.

This is my yaml file:

version: "2.1"
services:
  plex:
    image: plexinc/pms-docker:plexpass
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PLEX_UID=1000
      - PLEX_GID=100
      - VERSION=docker
      - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,video,utility
    volumes:
      - ...
      - ...
      - ...
    restart: unless-stopped

I bring you the section relating to TAGS from the official docker documentation:

Zitat von Documentation of Official Docker container for Plex Media Server

TAGS

In addition to the standard version and latest tags, two other tags exist: plexpass and public. These two images behave differently than your typical containers. These two images do not have any Plex Media Server binary installed. Instead, when these containers are run, they will perform an update check and fetch the latest version, install it, and then continue execution. They also run the update check whenever the container is restarted. To update the version in the container, simply stop the container and start container again when you have a network connection. The startup script will automatically fetch the appropriate version and install it before starting the Plex Media Server.

The public restricts this check to public versions only where as plexpass will fetch Plex Pass versions. If the server is not logged in or you do not have Plex Pass on your account, the plexpass tagged images will be restricted to publicly available versions only.

Also I recommend you to create a user to use specifically for the PLEX docker and use in docker configuration the UID and GID of that user.