I used to simply use the ‘latest’ version tag, but that occasionally caused problems with breaking changes in major updates.
I’m currently using podman-compose and I manually update the release tags periodically, but the number of containers keeps increasing, so I’m not very happy with this solution. I do have a simple script which queries the Docker Hub API for tags, which makes it slightly easier to find out whether there are updates.
I imagine a solution with a nice UI for seeing if updates are available and possibly applying them to the relevant compose files. Does anything like this exist or is there a better solution?
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WatchTower can auto uodate your container or notify you when an update is available, I use it with a Matrix account for notifications
Yes, https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/ is a great tool. Used it myself for a whole now.
I use DIUN (docker image update notifier). You can watch tags with it and it will notify you when updates are available. I have it email me Saturday morning. I like it a lot more than watchtower.
I use podman auto-update command.
I’d also like to see what others use
I just use docker compose files. Bundle my arr stack in a single compose file and can docker compose pull to update them all in one swoop.
Just so I understand, you’re using your compose file to handle updating images? How does that work? I’m using some hacked together recursive shell function I found to update all my images at once.
There’s plenty of tutorials out there for it. A quick DuckDuckGo search turned up this as one of the first results, but the theory is the same if you wanted to bundle ‘arr containers instead of nginx/whatever. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/workflow-multiple-containers-docker-compose
Essentially you create docker compose file for services, within which you have as many containers as you want set up like you would any other compose file. You ‘docker compose pull’ and ‘docker compose up -d’ to update/install just like you would for individual docker container, but it does them all together. It sounds like others in the thread have more automated someone with services dedicated to watching for updates and running those automatically but I just look for a flag in the app saying there’s an update available and pull/ up -d whenever it’s convenient/I realize there’s an update.
This one dockers.
I pin versions and stick to stable releases as I want stability. Everything is behind a VPN so I’m not too worried. I check them and update once a week or so.
Auto update with “latest” version tag, and re-pull to a specific previous version if there are problems. Got too many containers to keep up with individual versions
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