Argus VS watchtower

Argus sounds like it will do a lot/most/all of what you're looking for. Super easy to set up with Docker. I had it running for quite a while but just moved everything to either Github release notification emails or diun (docker image update notifier). No real reason for my switch besides laziness/familiarity. Check it out!

We've recently implemented https://github.com/release-argus/Argus to keep track of all docker images that need regular upgrades.

https://github.com/release-argus/Argus is another alternative

Agreed. Does everything watchtower does and gives you a web page to view configuration of whatsupdocker and available container updates. Can monitor only or upgrade. Also has a docker compose trigger to perform upgrades. Might also look at Argus to monitor application versions.

Fantastic! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Link for anyone interested - check out the demo.

Take a look at Argus. I use it to monitor the application version (not a container tag). I get notifications via mailrise (SMTP gateway for apprise) which then go to Gotify and Discord. I have webhooks setup to run scripts so I can approve the update from the Argus app to automate the update. You can also have it set to auto approve.

Related: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

> if you're using the docker image, upgrades are a breeze. Just bump the tag on the image, redeploy, and you're done.

Or you could just run Watchtower beside it and it will automatically update your docker containers. https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower If you are OK with automated updates.

So i primarily use containers on my local machine walled off from the internet, so it's not a big concern for me. Watchtower [1] is popular among home server users too which automatically updates containers to the latest image.

For production uses I think companies generally build their own containers. They would have a common base linux container and build the other containers based off that with a typical CI/CD pipeline. So if glibc is patched, it's probably patched in the base container and the others are then rebuilt. You don't have to patch each container individually, just the base. Production also minimizes the scope of containers with nothing installed except what's necessary so they have few dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

You can use Watchtower (https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/) that solves problem of manual pulling on VPS.

I checked https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/ and Arguments, but I don't understand where to attach that using portainer.

Again, there are options to automate some of the burden here by using tools such as Watchtower.

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