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**Warning:** this command is part of the Swarm management feature introduced in Docker 1.12, and might be subject to non backward-compatible changes.

# swarm update

	Usage:    docker swarm update [OPTIONS]

	update the Swarm.

	Options:
	      --auto-accept value   Acceptance policy (default [worker,manager])
	      --help                Print usage
	      --secret string       Set secret value needed to accept nodes into cluster


Updates a Swarm cluster with new parameter values. This command must target a manager node.


```bash
$ docker swarm update --auto-accept manager
```

## Related information

* [swarm init](swarm_init.md)
* [swarm join](swarm_join.md)
* [swarm leave](swarm_leave.md)