dockcheck VS Argus

As someone who knows just enough about Docker to be able to scratch together a docker-compose.yml every now and again only to promptly forget all the commands I need to ever maintain them going forward, I'm eternally grateful that dockcheck.sh prompts me to do this as a final step whenever I run it.

I’m a simple man. I upgrade everything via dockcheck, verify that everything still works, and if not restore from backup!

And I've personally made a script to selectively auto-update containers, or just check status. With the option to filter or exclude specific containers. Find the project here: mag37/dockcheck

To "mass-check and mass-update" containers from the commandline, dockcheck is very light and useful. A simple dockcheck.sh -a -p for example would check all deployed containers for image updates and if there are any, pull them, then restart the container and at the end, cleanup unused images to free up diskspace. There is also a version with a web interface, DCW.

I haven’t gone the watchtower route, since I’d prefer to review changes myself (or let’s be honest - others’ reactions to the changes). Instead. I’ve been using a combo of diun and dockcheck (https://github.com/mag37/dockcheck ). Diun lets me know when containers have changed and dockcheck lets me cherry pick what I upgrade.

If you want to update images, try dockcheck or DCW.

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.