It’s a different approach. This project started as a proof of concept - just to show that it’s possible to check for updates without pulling the whole image first (which is how Watchtower does it).
Then it evolved to orchestrate granular automatic updates with a bunch of extra functionality - while still adhering to the core goal of keeping it simple and lightweight.
Thank you! Oh! That’s pretty cool, do you mind sharing bits of how this is done? Would be nice to incorporate into a notify-template in the future.
Thank you!
I sadly don’t have too much insights in the other alternatives, I try to not compare too much - maybe I should study them a bit more to understand the wider picture. There’s a few more I forgot to mention; renovate and dependabot.
While I think all those tools are great and have functionality that my project cant fulfill - I strive to keep dockcheck simple and lightweight. Options and functionality have been bolted on bit by bit while still trying to have it as simple as possible in its core functions - so a user could just download the main script dockcheck.sh and run it to list updates and optionally update. Everything else is optional, extras.
I guess it depends on what you’re looking for. If you’d like a GUI or more in depth setup or reporting - I’d look elsewhere, but if you’d like simplicity and maybe schedule it to notify you when there’s updates available - my project my be the thing.
So my answer would be yes: if you’re running docker compose this project is very newbie friendly and easy to get going!
Thats really nice! Thank you so much for the writeup.
Would you mind if I added this as a discussion (crediting you and this post!) in the github project? Or if you’d like to copypaste it yourself to get the credit and be a part of the discussion.