TL;DR: is there an app that can alert me when a new version of some other app is available?

I have about 12 - 15 services (freshrss, heimdall, photoprism, Wordpress, etc) running using docker compose spread across 4 hosts. Through my self-hosting journey I’ve been burned a few times using “latest” images so I now pin app image versions within compose.

The problem then becomes that every couple of weeks, I have to go out to different GitHub’s, docker hub, etc. to see if a new update for that service is available. It gets a bit tedious with 12-15 services every couple of weeks so I need a centralized and more efficient way of “keeping up”.

Is there some type of app that can track whether an app/service has a new version available? Ideally it can send me some type of notification, self-hostable, and ideally not Portainer?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•7 months ago

    While of course Watchtower can be configured to not update and only notify there is also a nice, lightweight alternative out there that is built only for image update notifications: Diun.

    I think he looked at it.

    • @wreckedcarzzEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      Why did they spend 8 paragraphs of ‘this is terrible’ and then be like ‘but you can change that, though I decided not to’. I dunno, the whole post is stupid, imo. It’s complaining about something that has already been resolved, then suggesting a different solution.

      shrug