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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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Nginx Proxy Manager
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
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n8n
n8n is a workflow automation platform for building AI-powered workflows and agents, connecting any AI model to any business system with full control over data, security, and deployment. Build visually or in code while n8n handles infrastructure from prototype to production with fully auditable executions.
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gluetun
VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.
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docker
A community maintained docker micro-image for deploying Nextcloud on container platforms (by nextcloud)
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dockcheck
CLI tool to automate docker image updates. Interactive or unattended with notifications, image backups, autoprune, no pre-pulling and more.
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self-hosted-docker-setups
A collection of my docker-compose files used to setup self-hosted services on Raspberry Pi 4 running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better watchtower alternative or higher similarity.
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Watchtower vs DIUN: Docker Update Tools
Watchtower monitors your running Docker containers and automatically updates them when a new image is pushed to the registry. It pulls the new image, stops the old container, and restarts it with the same configuration. There is no web UI — it runs as a background daemon.
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Docker Compose Magic: How to Automate All Your Container Updates with Watchtower and Diun
Watchtower documentation: https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/
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Show HN: Mushak – Zero config zero downtime Docker Compose to server deployment
Fascinating stuff.
Personally what I ended up doing with my vps was to just have a docker-compose.yaml and then just docker-compose it to start it and then I have a custom script which would run a service at a port after which I can just "bash expose.sh subdomain.domain.app PORT" and it uses cloudflared/cloudflare tunnels under the loop and if someone wants a git like workflow, I recommend pushing docker images and then using watchtower (https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/)
I had tried to understand caddy but I instead went the cloudflare tunnels route.
- Watchtower Is Now Unmaintained
- Containrrr/watchtower is now unmaintained
- Containrrr/watchtower is now archived
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Monitoring a Docker Homelab with Open Source
In my setup, Watchtower takes care of updating docker containers, which works great with Coroot.
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watchtower VS wud - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Dec 2025
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How I built a self-hosted AI automation stack without losing my mind
Watchtower (auto-updates containers) https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/
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HomeLab
For updates, I’m using a container called Watchtower that updates my Docker images automatically, together with unattended-upgrades to update system security packages.
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A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 15 Jul 2026
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Basic watchtower repo stats
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7 months ago
containrrr/watchtower is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of watchtower is Go.
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