Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Watchtower, the automatic container image update platform notorious for breaking things
That’s kind of a bullshit allegation. Watchtower did what it did, if you set it up to grab unstable tags, then too bad for you.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My issue was that Watchtower would sporadically just fumble the update, making re-deployment sometimes necessary. It wasn’t a tag issue. At least none that I could see. Of course, the possibility exists that I could just very well be a dumbass. I just assumed that to be the Docker updates that have happened over the past year, and, without any new code, it just broke. It happens.
I either read somewhere or someone tipped me off to the fork. I can only speak for my network, but the fork did the trick. Have had zero issues, and I’ve been using it for a good while. Now, I notice that Watchtower fork hasn’t been updated in 6 months. I guess it’s either been abandoned again or there just hasn’t been a need to do so.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Someone linked this fork, seems maintained:
github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve used it several months and can recommend it. No issues so far and seems to get regular updates for bugfixes and minor new features.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hey thank you very much for the tip. I have bookmarked it. I feel better knowing it is going to be maintained.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
To be fair, any kind of automated system can just break. So many factors come into play. Azure build pipelines for instance just sometimes decide they can’t communicate with their own servers, causing a build failure.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure. It wasn’t a dig against OG Watchtower, it was just that it ceased to work correctly for me, and I sought other options. Whomever produces selfh.st does have a bit of sarcastic wit to his writing that I kind of like anyways. When speaking about GitHub, he threw out another zinger: ‘Cue the intense backlash from users who hate paying for things’. So, I just think it is his writing style. I didn’t get all hung up on it.