dockprom VS watchtower

This guide before was just just kinda streamlined version of of the great stefanprodan/dockprom.

Dockprom is a solid starting point. It gives the essentials and you can tweak it to your liking. For example I forgo Alertmanager (for now) but have added more exporters, data sources, etc.

For tracking stats - Grafana, paired with appropriate backends. Dockprom is a nice starting point as it comes with most things preconfigured. You just need to tweak them accordingly.

i used Dockprom (https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom) at one point, it looks and works well however I found the CPU usage at the time higher than it should be. Your CPU would handle it easily, but it was still causing 10% CPU usage which i didn't like. I don't think this is a widespread common issue it's a very popular project but just a heads up to keep an eye on CPU if you decide to test it out.

Take a look at https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom as a way to work with Docker, docker compose, grafana, prometheus and more.

https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom Read the YML and remove what you aren’t using.

If you run plex in a docker container I highly recommend this grafana dashboard setup: https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom

Something like dockerprom can do that for you :) https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom

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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