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 It looks like Watchtower is years out of date now.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?
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: neverEvery 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.
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.