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Latest Watchtower fork? (github.com)

submitted 5 days ago by blazeknave@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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 It looks like Watchtower is years out of date now.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/active-forks/index.html#https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

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@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (17 children)

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

[–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] mac@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

I just use RSS for this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] VeryNiiiice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day 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

[–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 0 points 4 days ago

No, because MONITOR_ONLY is for all

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Honestly I think this might be a better way than what I’m using now. I’ve subbed to ~~dockerrelease.io~~ (edit: docker-notify.com) 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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

You can use scopes to limit updates to pre-determinded containers.

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