GitHub - beatkind/watchtower: A process for automating Docker container base image updates.
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  • @roofuskitEnglish
    6•10 hours ago

    Those of you self hosters who use watchtower, what’s your use case?

    • MorethanevilEnglish
      6•10 hours ago

      I only let me notify about updates. I don’t want autoupdates, because some projects may have breaking changes (looking at you Immich 😁)

      I get a message from watchtower over Gotify and then I can read the changelog

      • @blazeknaveOPEnglish
        2•9 hours ago

        I’ve been thinking about this. Can you do that with watchtower? Don’t need diem or anything?

        • MorethanevilEnglish
          3•9 hours ago

          It is very easy. Here is my compose:

          services:
  watchtower:
    image: containrrr/watchtower
    container_name: watchtower
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    command: --interval 10800
    logging:
      driver: local
    environment:
          WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_URL: gotify://
          WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS_HOSTNAME: Fancy name
          WATCHTOWER_MONITOR_ONLY: true
          WATCHTOWER_WARN_ON_HEAD_FAILURE: never

          Every 3 hours it will check for updates, send a message via Gotify and pull the new images. It will not restart the containers with the new images.

          • @roofuskitEnglish
            1•3 hours ago

            Is it possible to have it auto update say one container and notify the rest?

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 hours ago

            Honestly I think this might be a better way than what I’m using now. I’ve subbed to dockerrelease.io and releasealert.dev … get spammed all day everyday because the devs keep pushing all sorts of updates to old branches… or because those sites aren’t configured well.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•10 hours ago

      Automatic updates. Works like a dream. Depending on what you are running it can obviously cause issues, either server side breaking or server,client communication issues

    • @blazeknaveOPEnglish
      2•9 hours ago

      ADHD and not technical by trade so it’s not in my DNA to remember