watchtower VS dizqueTV-scripts

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.

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

Watchtower is a popular thing to also run in a container, and it can check all your containers for updates and optionally also pull and restart them them. However there are some risks to automatically update software right away when its released. Typically i would recommend you set Watchtower to only notify you about available updates, and then you can check the releasenotes and decide when its safe to update.

If your apps are container images, then there are tools like diun, watchtower and whatsupdocker, those can watch the image repository (like Docker Hub) and notify you if a new/updated image has been found. Some can even download and auto-update for you, but that comes at some risk of course.

Watchtower is an open-source software that automatically recreates your containers with the new version of the image as soon as it is available on the registry.

Watchtower is quite popular. It is a watchdog that monitors the images your containers are using, and at regular intervals, checks their registries (Docker Hub, GitHub, etc) if there are new "versions" available. Then it can either automatically pull the image and restart the container to immediately use it. Or it can just notify you about it and you manage the updating yourself.

You might want to take a look at the scripts - and API that nwithan8 created. These can be used to update channel content from your Plex playlists, as well as other channel customization.

There’s a set of scripts which you can use to update channels periodically: https://github.com/nwithan8/dizqueTV-scripts

""" DizqueTV scripts created by nwithan8 (https://github.com/nwithan8/dizqueTV-scripts) Copy all items from a Plex playlist to an existing dizqueTV channel. Refreshes the channel (removes all existing programs, re-adds new items)