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.
Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More
Submitted 3 days ago by jogai_san@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-19/
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ikidd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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:
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.
paperd@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
GitHub stole most of the spotlight this week after announcing it was going to begin charging customers for self-hosted Actions runner usage while simultaneously reducing the price for those hosted by the platform. Cue the intense backlash from users who hate paying for things
This is certainly a take. And not a good one. JFC, you can’t imagine why people would be upset about being charged to run stuff on your own infrastructure? What is Ethan smoking here??
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
:/ shit.
I’m pretty sure I saw this a few months ago and moved to the beatkind/watchtower fork, but it’s not been updated in 6mo either. (Devs only been active in private repos; so they’re still around, just not actively working on watchtower)
Guess I’ll find another solution. Hell, I might just put my own script on crontab. Looping through folders running docker compose down/pull/up isn’t too hard really.
darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower
Switched awhile back, no issues.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Same. No issues.
sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tugtainer is pretty nice, and has a webui.
Crogdor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s an… interesting name.
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
As an alternative what’s up docker is quite good but a bit more complex to setup :).
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I haven’t used it, but this project looks interesting: github.com/dkorecko/PatchPanda
It doesn’t just update you containers, it checks the release notes too.
ragica@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I’m liking the simplicity of dockcheck
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
This one looks nice too :) ! The thing I like with WUD is the direct link to the new release/changelog documentation.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I feel like I just want to check out of society lately.
Charging money to run your own actions, what the fuck?
But the sane thought goes with the new increased iOS ads, and just the general state of “now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin” phase of tech. I’m so fucking tired of it.
I know this is self hosted, but man I’m ready to start living in a cave.
Congrats to all the execs, you’ve completely ruined the tech industry.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2 days ago
No - I think they made it (involuntary) better by forcing people into looking into self hosting and taking control over their own infrastructure.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I guess that’s true.
This morning my very non techy wife was complaining all the AI shit on her computer was making it slow.
I looked over and Explorer was visibly lagging clicking in to a folder, on a system with an SSD and solid specs.
markstos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Part of the app resides on the GitHub infrastructure, where GitHub stores, processes and displays results. So their costs are not zero.
But GitHub could take a “tax the rich” approach to pricing by charging enterprise customers more for self-hostingand leave it free for others.
A lot of open source is funded like that— most funding for a project comes from a very few companies and everything else uses it free or for very low donations or costs.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just self host the whole thing with Forgejo. I run a few github actions on runners all on my own stuff.
excursion22@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Essentially the definition of enshittification.
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 days ago
don’t want that, don’t buy into anything coming out of silicon valley ever. that is their entire culture