Comment on I've written a series of blog posts about a "hands-off" self-hosting setup intended for relative beginners.

hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This is very cool, but also very dangerous. Many projects release versions that need some sort of manual intervention to be updated, and automatically updating to new versions on docker can lead to data loss in those situations.

Here’s a recent example from Immich:

github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/…/v1.133.0

It is my humble opinion that teaching newbies to do automatic updates will cause them to lose data and break things, which will probably sour them from ever self hosting again.

Automatic OS updates are fine, and docker update notifications are fine, but automatic docker updates are just too dangerous.

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