Description The Docker Update Module handles the Docker images that shall be running in the device. A deployment with this module will stop all currently running Docker containers in the device, and start new containers with the provided list of Docker images in the Mender Artifact. In case of an u…

Is there a way to pass arguments to container? If yes, how?

Hi @Prakash and welcome to Mender Hub! As it is, this Update Module does not support passing arguments to the container. However, it is pretty easy to create a new module based on this one that could achieve that. Have a look at the Docker Update Module and generator source code (links in table ab…

I’m facing an issue when building a docker mender artifact. Somehow my docker tag is not used correctly. This is what I do: ARTIFACT_NAME=“rabbit-mq:3.7.8-management” DEVICE_TYPE=“raspberrypi3” OUTPUT_PATH=“rabbit-mq:3.7.8-management.mender” DOCKER_IMAGES=“arm32v7/rabbitmq:3.7.8-management” .…

Hi @freibrun , Good that you figured out. I didn’t know neither about this detail, so thank you for the knowledge sharing :slight_smile:

I have done these procedures during the installation itself. Something, somewhere the this particular file perm has changed…

Hi @freibrun , Im also getting the tag like this after deployment, How did you resolve it , it will help me alot…

Hi @lluiscampos , For this docker update, I have dpeloyed it and then It stops the previous container and then runs the new docker pull, as mentioned., But then after the device has restarted, the older docker also restarts, which is not likely isn’t it. How or why this is happening or how to pre…

Hi @nishad1092 , I am sorry I don’t understand your message. See the source code , the docker module is very simple as it is meant to demo the Mender Update Module capabilities. You probably need to extend it to cover more advance use cases.

sure @lluiscampos Ill take a look at it. Thanks for the link.

Hello everyone, Is it possible to update Docker container from local file with this Update Module? E.g. docker save to create tar archive of the image, and then docker load on the device to load the image from a local file? This is needed for evaluating the feasibility of using Docker with devices…

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