Updating the Node Version

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Hello there, I am fairly new to balenaCloud and have been trying for the past day to get the node version of my devices raised. Right now its stuck at 10.10 and I need at least 12.7.0 for a package I am using. I have tried using nvm to upgrade it to no luck. In my package.json for my project if I set the node version any higher than 10.10 I get the message “Couldn’t satisfy node version”.

I found this page: https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/base-images/base-images/ and it looks like they have images up to Node v13, but I am not sure how to use these images on my devices.

Thank you

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Hello, Please could you share the contents of your DockerFile? You probably need to change the FROM directive to use a different base image.

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I did manage to figure it out by reading through the github docker files and using one of those. I could not find documentation directly on Balena to change out your image, especially since you can use Balena CLI without a docker file so I did not know you could customize it.

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Hey @tgb, good to hear that you resolved the issue. There is an example in our docs that show how to use these base images: https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/base-images/base-images/#examples

For your information, we have a Docker masterclass that might help out with the fundamentals: https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/more/masterclasses/docker-masterclass/

Let us know if you have any further feedback on our docs.