I have a docker container running in portainer. I have added an SMB volume to the container. Does anyone know how I can update this docker container using docker-compose without undoing my changes? Th

I have a docker container running in portainer. I have added an SMB volume to the container. Does anyone know how I can update this docker container using docker-compose without undoing my changes? Thanks
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You can just mount the SMB volume using docker-compose.

I think have some example compose files if you need some example.

@Catsrules Thanks. This specific to Immich. The upload location in the docker-compose is picked from .env file. I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how to mount the portainer SMB volume in the .env file. What I ended up doing was to select the containers using the upload location and edit the volume to attach the SMB share volume from portainer. I hope what I said makes sense. I am just a newbie learning docker right now.

I am kind of just making this up as I go along so odds are this won't work but it will hopefully get you closer. I only modified the very end under the volumes from their default compose file here https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml

You will need to change the IP address to the address of you SMB server as well as the user name and password your going to be using. You may need to change the uid and gid I think you want those to be the id of whatever user is running immich. 1000 is usually a good default if you don't know.

In the .env file try just putting in upload-volume as the upload location. Like this

UPLOAD_LOCATION=upload-volume

Oh I almost forgot your host computer (the one running docker) needs to have cifs-utils installed or the cifs volume will not work and you will get a bunch of errors (Ask me how I know).

Modified Compose file

version: "3.8"

services:
  immich-server:
    container_name: immich_server
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    command: [ "start.sh", "immich" ]
    volumes:
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
    env_file:
      - .env
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
      - typesense
    restart: always

  immich-microservices:
    container_name: immich_microservices
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    # extends:
    #   file: hwaccel.yml
    #   service: hwaccel
    command: [ "start.sh", "microservices" ]
    volumes:
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
    env_file:
      - .env
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
      - typesense
    restart: always

  immich-machine-learning:
    container_name: immich_machine_learning
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    volumes:
      - model-cache:/cache
    env_file:
      - .env
    restart: always

  immich-web:
    container_name: immich_web
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-web:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    env_file:
      - .env
    restart: always

  typesense:
    container_name: immich_typesense
    image: typesense/typesense:0.24.1@sha256:9bcff2b829f12074426ca044b56160ca9d777a0c488303469143dd9f8259d4dd
    environment:
      - TYPESENSE_API_KEY=${TYPESENSE_API_KEY}
      - TYPESENSE_DATA_DIR=/data
    volumes:
      - tsdata:/data
    restart: always

  redis:
    container_name: immich_redis
    image: redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:70a7a5b641117670beae0d80658430853896b5ef269ccf00d1827427e3263fa3
    restart: always

  database:
    container_name: immich_postgres
    image: postgres:14-alpine@sha256:28407a9961e76f2d285dc6991e8e48893503cc3836a4755bbc2d40bcc272a441
    env_file:
      - .env
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
    volumes:
      - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    restart: always

  immich-proxy:
    container_name: immich_proxy
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-proxy:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    environment:
      # Make sure these values get passed through from the env file
      - IMMICH_SERVER_URL
      - IMMICH_WEB_URL
    ports:
      - 2283:8080
    depends_on:
      - immich-server
      - immich-web
    restart: always

volumes:
  pgdata:
  model-cache:
  tsdata:
  upload-volume:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: cifs
      device: "//172.1.1.6/changetoshare"
      o: addr=172.1.1.6,username=changetouser,password=changeme,vers=2.0,uid=1000,gid=1000

You'd mount the volume in the docker-compose.yml using the volumes: node.

You can try to automatically generate the compose file via this command:

docker run --rm \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
    ghcr.io/red5d/docker-autocompose \
    your-current-container-name-or-id-goes-here \
    another-container-should-there-be-more-than-one

Don’t add the mount in the container. Just open Portainer, go to your container, click “Duplicate/Edit”, scroll down, and do this:
- @Dirk thanks. That's how I did it but I am not sure if updating using docker compose would overwrite it. Portainer is running on a VM so I will make sure to snapshot it and try so I can restore it if needed.
  
  You’re using Portainer, why manually mess with docker compose?
@LordChaos82 @selfhosted you can create a compose file, and in it, state the volumes are external (so compose knows to reuse existing volumes).

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