I plan for the first time to run Plex on Docker and test it in terms of performance, etc, however something I’ve noticed is that the “plexpass” tag seems to be greatly out of date.
Looking at Docker Hub, at this point in time, “plexpass” was updated 3 months ago! So most likely still on 1.18.5 while we are already on 1.19.3
As such my question is, to someone that wants to have Plex Server updated on the latest version on a easy way and have all the PlexPass features, is the “latest” tag better?
Will it contain the Plexpass features too?
In addition to the standard version and latest tags, two other tags exist: beta and public . These two images behave differently than your typical containers. These two images do not have any Plex Media Server binary installed. Instead, when these containers are run, they will perform an update check and fetch the latest version, install it, and then continue execution. They also run the update check whenever the container is restarted. To update the version in the container, simply stop the container and start container again when you have a network connection. The startup script will automatically fetch the appropriate version and install it before starting the Plex Media Server.
The public restricts this check to public versions only where as beta will fetch beta versions. If the server is not logged in or you do not have Plex Pass on your account, the beta tagged images will be restricted to publicly available versions only.
TLDR;: simply use beta tag (not plexpass), stop the container, start the container → running the latest version
Different names for the same thing. beta is much more descriptive of what the container is and the plexpass tag is only kept up for those who used the old tag name.
