containrrr/watchtower
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A process for automating Docker container base image updates.
28 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 5 stories, 23 comments · first 2018-03-15 · latest 2025-12-18
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GitHub issue for podman support, here: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower/issues/1060
comment by okl · 2025-02-21 · in Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker -
Interesting- my first time reading about Kamal. I personally used watchtower ( https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower ) to check for and deploy container updates from the GitHub Container Registry and push new images there from Actions.…
comment by z33k · 2024-09-13 · in Self-Hosting Next.js on a VPS -
Related: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower Polls a docker registry and automatically restarts the container with the same flags that it was started with using the latest image.
comment by lyxell · 2024-04-10 · in My deployment platform is a shell script -
…Or you could just run Watchtower beside it and it will automatically update your docker containers. https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower If you are OK with automated updates.
comment by zikduruqe · 2023-11-29 · in Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud -
…of containers with nothing installed except what's necessary so they have few dependencies. [1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
comment by zaptheimpaler · 2023-11-26 · in The Curse of Docker -
…do you mean by Watchguard? I did a search but didn't find anything. Did you mean Watchtower maybe? https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
comment by kasbah · 2022-09-23 · in LXC and LXD: a different container story -
…using watchtower + dockerhub + github to automate, work like a charm, cost 60$/year. [watchtower]( https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower )
comment by uncleBobby · 2022-06-14 · in Overthinking (2021) -
…like and/or found simple enough to use. What does your Wireguard setup look like? Watchtower: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower Gotify: https://github.com/gotify/server
comment by psYchotic · 2022-03-23 · in Start Self Hosting -
…used it personally, there is [0] Watchtower which aims to automate updating docker containers. [0] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
comment by gibs0ns · 2021-08-19 · in Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server -
…around for automatically pulling and running new images. Isn't that exactly what watchtower does? https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower It works great on my mediacenter server running deluge, plex, sonarr, radarr, jackett and OpenVPN in…
comment by scandinavian · 2021-08-19 · in Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server -
You might be interested in: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower It would automatically pull the new image and restart your containers.
comment by oftenwrong · 2021-03-18 · in Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog -
…and restart your containers if needed. That makes deployment, for some cases, really nice. [1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
comment by hivacruz · 2021-03-16 · in We Don’t Use Docker -
…like shepherd for Swarm ( https://github.com/djmaze/shepherd ), watchtower for regular Docker ( https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower ) or whatever the Kubernetes alternative is. The whole DB user thing feels unfortunate, however!…
comment by KronisLV · 2020-12-20 · in Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google -
…to keep it automatically updated without hassle. [0] https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver [1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
comment by RcrdBrt · 2020-11-22 · in Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server in Go -
…shell triggering the OOM killer. ;) [0] https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/PkgServerS3Mirror [1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower [2] https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/PkgServerS3Mirror/blob/c6a...
comment by staticfloat · 2020-08-07 · in JuliaCon2020: Julia Is Production Ready -
…stuff is a continued investment, you can't just leave that server there to bit rot. [1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
comment by bad_user · 2020-07-22 · in Medium is not the home for your ideas -
…but seems like a little bit of a hack from what I've seen. Watchtower is closer to what I'd like https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower , but why can't we have a more integrated system built into the default tooling?
comment by zantana · 2020-02-05 · in Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) -
…use something like this for some sort of simple continuous deployment from Github. Any ideas? [1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower [2] https://github.com/pyouroboros/ouroboros
comment by Osyris · 2019-12-12 · in Announcing ctr.run: on-demand Docker builds -
You might want to start by implementing CD for dev and test using Docker and watchtower: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
comment by tuukkah · 2019-05-10 · in Introduction to Containerization -
…has been a godsend for deploying self-hosted software. I haven't tried it yet, but watchtower ( https://github.com/v2tec/watchtower ) can be used to automatically update running Docker containers.
comment by tlrobinson · 2018-11-12 · in Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services -
watchtower ( https://github.com/v2tec/watchtower ) is the project you're probably thinking of. It works great for me.
comment by AtroxDev · 2018-07-26 · in Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using? -
…have an official Docker image, we could just use it with watchtower, it would autoupdate itself. https://github.com/v2tec/watchtower
comment by akerro · 2018-05-25 · in Tor: 1100 relays still run end-of-life tor versions -
Maybe https://github.com/v2tec/watchtower , but Keel looks cool.
comment by BretFisher · 2018-03-15 · in Show HN: Gitkube – Deploy to Kubernetes Using Git Push