# Why won't rancher-compose update external services?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/why-wont-rancher-compose-update-external-services/5829>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [March 12, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/why-wont-rancher-compose-update-external-services/5829 "2017-03-12T12:50:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/sra/32/1514_2.png) [@sra](https://forums.suse.com/u/sra)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/why-wont-rancher-compose-update-external-services/5829/1 "2017-03-12T12:50:40Z")

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Changing a service defined as an external service does nothing when `rancher-compose up` or `rancher-compose up -u` is run. Even adding `--force-recreate` does nothing.

What is the rationale for this behavior?

Example:

docker-compose.yml:

```auto
version: '2'
  dbserver:
    image: rancher/external-service

```

rancher-compose.yml:

```auto
version: '2'
  dbserver:
    hostname: example.com

```

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**Author:** ![sra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/sra/32/1514_2.png) [@sra](https://forums.suse.com/u/sra)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/why-wont-rancher-compose-update-external-services/5829/2 "2017-05-01T11:18:32Z")

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Anyone? Should I open a ticket?

NM, I[opened an issue.](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/8623)