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Are there any concerns/risks to using Watchtower? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by notdoreen@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Someone recommended it for keeping my containers up to date automatically. I checked out the repo and it seems too good to be true. It just updates your containers when a new image is available and everything just works out of the box? I'm a bit scared of just leaving it alone in case it might break something. The fact that it doesn't come with a gui also scares me a bit.

Does anyone here use it and can recommend it? Any horror stories?

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[โ€“] zfa@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Normally fine but if you want to be more careful about what is being pushed to your server you can use something like diun to get notifications and run updates manually.

Personally I love dockcheck, which I think is by a guy on the sub. I tend to just run that every now and again and be done with it unless I am notified of a perssing update, although I do still have a couple of things I don't care too much about just auto update with watchtower.

[โ€“] thekrautboy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I am happy in the camp of diun+dockcheck too, they both dont get enough love.