Latest Watchtower fork?

a year ago by blazeknave to c/selfhosted

A process for automating Docker container base image updates. - GitHub - beatkind/watchtower: A process for automating Docker container base image updates.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26728988

Hi - I'm rebuilding my homelab and want to give docker compose another try. It looks like Watchtower is years out of date now. I see two forks that look more promising per https://techgaun.github.io/...

These two: https://github.com/beatkind/watchtower https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower

The former seems to have more activity. What are you all using?

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roofuskit 6 points a year ago

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

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morethanevil 9 points a year 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

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blazeknave 2 points a year ago

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

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morethanevil 3 points a year 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.

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roofuskit 2 points a year ago

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

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VeryNiiiice 3 points a year ago

Yes. There is a label you would need to apply to all of your containers to specify whether or not to update: com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.monitor-only=true

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