# Upgrade container using API?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/upgrade-container-using-api/2986>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [June 1, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/upgrade-container-using-api/2986 "2016-06-01T05:01:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sserrano44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sserrano44](https://forums.suse.com/u/sserrano44)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/upgrade-container-using-api/2986/1 "2016-06-01T05:01:36Z")

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Is it feasible to upgrade a container using the API?

I don’t want to use rancher-compose specially because I don’t want to leave the docker-rancher.yml on the server that triggers the update.

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**Author:** ![sserrano44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sserrano44](https://forums.suse.com/u/sserrano44)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/upgrade-container-using-api/2986/2 "2016-06-02T19:20:30Z")

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Found the solution: [Upgrade Rancher Service using REST API](http://forums.suse.com/t/upgrade-rancher-service-using-rest-api/1459)