Portainer Update

This tool can be used to update a stack via the portainer project.

Feature list

• Update existing stacks
• Read a docker-compose file from file system
• Make tool available through npx
• Deploy new stacks
• Command line tool

## Usage

==Attention: Portainer only supports compose file version 2 at the moment==

Example Usage

As package

const { Auth, Deploy, Update, GetStackByName } = require('portainer-update');
const url = "http://localhost:9000/api";

Auth("username", "password", url)
	.then(async (response) => {
		const stacks = [];
		
		const stackid = await GetStackByName(response.jwt, url, "stackname");
		
		// JsonWebToken, Portainer api url, id of stack which should be updated, 
		// endpoint id, docker compose as string
		stacks.push(await Update(response.jwt, url, stackid, 1, "compose string"));

		// JsonWebToken, Portainer api url, name of the new stack which will be deployed, 
		// endpoint id, docker compose as string
		stacks.push(await Deploy(response.jwt, url, "stackname", 1, "compose string"));
		console.info(JSON.stringify(stacks));
	});

In Terminal

npx portainer-update -p <Stackname> -u <Portainer Username> --password <Portainer Password> -f <Path to docker compose> -s <Portainer URL>

Parameters

Parameter	Name	Description	Required
-h | –help	Help	Show this parameter table
-e | –env	Envrionment	At the moment this parameter has no effect
-p | –project	Stackname	The name of the stack you want to update	X
-u | –user	Portainer Username	The username of the user which will update the stack ==The user need the permission to edit the stack==	X
–password	Portainer Password	This tool is for use in CiCD pipelines so please provide the password as a secret variable	X
-f | –compose	Path to compose	Fill in the path to the compose file, which you want to deploy	X
-s | –portainersystem	Portainer API URL	The address where to find portainer API (The url you are browsing to in your browser)	Default value: http://localhost:9000
–endpoint	Endpoint ID	The id of the endpoint where the stack should be deployed	Default value: 1