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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.
## update
```markdown
Usage: docker node update [OPTIONS] NODE
Update a node
Options:
--availability string Availability of the node (active/pause/drain)
--help Print usage
--label-add value Add or update a node label (key=value) (default [])
--label-rm value Remove a node label if exists (default [])
--membership string Membership of the node (accepted/rejected)
--role string Role of the node (worker/manager)
```
## Related information
* [node inspect](node_inspect.md)
* [node tasks](node_tasks.md)
* [node ls](node_ls.md)
* [node rm](node_rm.md)