How to upgrade docker container after its image changed

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After evaluating the answers and studying the topic I’d like to summarize.

The Docker way to upgrade containers seems to be the following:

Application containers should not store application data. This way you can replace app container with its newer version at any time by executing something like this:

docker pull mysql
docker stop my-mysql-container
docker rm my-mysql-container
docker run --name=my-mysql-container --restart=always \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mypwd -v /my/data/dir:/var/lib/mysql -d mysql

You can store data either on host (in directory mounted as volume) or in special data-only container(s). Read more about it

Upgrading applications (eg. with yum/apt-get upgrade) within containers is considered to be an anti-pattern. Application containers are supposed to be immutable, which shall guarantee reproducible behavior. Some official application images (mysql:5.6 in particular) are not even designed to self-update (apt-get upgrade won’t work).

I’d like to thank everybody who gave their answers, so we could see all different approaches.

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