# How to refresh a running application **URL:** \ **Category:** Rancher 1.x\ **Created:** [September 16, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-running-application/479 "2015-09-16T16:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ebishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@ebishop](https://forums.suse.com/u/ebishop)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-running-application/479/1 "2015-09-16T16:18:07Z")
I want to refresh a running application. By refresh, I mean I want to stop the containers, pull all of the images to be sure I have the latest versions, and then restart the containers. I’ve heard rumors of a marathon-like “forcePull” option for Rancher, but what’s my best approach today with Rancher? ---
**Author:** ![willchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/willchan/32/2856_2.png) [@willchan](https://forums.suse.com/u/willchan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-running-application/479/2 "2015-09-16T17:15:44Z")
We are adding the “force-pull” option in our next major Rancher-Compose CLI update. This should be coming out late this week or early next assuming no major issues found. Are you using the “:latest” tag or re-using same image tags when you are updating your services? We recommend you do not re-use the :latest tags but if you do, the force-pull option is what that feature will address due to docker caching. If you are simply looking to update an existing service, you can use our rolling-upgrade feature as described here [http://docs.rancher.com/rancher/rancher-compose/upgrading/](http://docs.rancher.com/rancher/rancher-compose/upgrading/) to help with updating services. ---
**Author:** ![ebishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@ebishop](https://forums.suse.com/u/ebishop)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-running-application/479/3 "2015-09-16T17:51:29Z")
We have have a mix of image tag naming policies, as our images are created by several different teams I think the force-pull option will do what we want. ---
**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-running-application/479/4 "2016-01-08T17:57:18Z")