How to upgrade Portainer on a remote host using Ansible

Click here: A series of articles about Ansible:

How to upgrade Portainer using Ansible

Here is a video tutorial

Requirements for Ansible:

ansible user added to each remote node
ansible user added to sudo/wheel/admins group
sudo/wheel/admins group set in /etc/sudoers to perform command with elevated privileges

Create ansible inventory

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sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts

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all:
  children:
    portainer:
      hosts:
        AdGuard:
          ansible_host: 10.10.0.108
          ansible_user: ansible
        nginx-proxy-manager:
          ansible_host: 10.10.0.137 
          ansible_user: ansible

Create ansible playbook. See the video for the explanation.

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vim portainer.yml

Put the below content into this file.

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---
- name: Upgrade Portainer on AdGuard Home LXC container in Proxmox
  hosts: portainer
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Stop Portainer
      shell: docker stop portainer 

    - name: Remove Portainer
      shell: docker rm portainer

    - name: Create the volume that Portainer Server will use to store its database
      shell: docker volume create portainer_data

    - name: Download newest Portainer 
      shell: sudo docker pull portainer/portainer-ce:latest 

    - name: Run Portainer 
      shell: docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Run the playbook like below:

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ansible-playbook portainer.yml

Scripts and configuration files are available here: