Ethan ShollyDec 19

Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More

The #Watchtower project is officially archived, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Jellify -- a cross-platform #Jellyfin #music client, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-19/

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Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More

Popular open source licenses, Santa tracking, and saying goodbye to an old friend

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Show threadUckermark MacGyver Dec 19
@shollyethan Thanks for the newsletter! I might be the only person which never had problems running Watchtower … I might just leave it running until it breaks….
Show threadEthan ShollyDec 19

@maxheadroom There's a link to a fork in the post that should be a drop-in replacement in you're not ready to part with Watchtower yet.

Are you using labels/semantic image versions to avoid blind upgrades, or you've really just been that lucky letting it YOLO updates for every container you're running?

Show threadUckermark MacGyver 
@shollyethan Yeah I saw that link. Might check it out. I run a mixture. Some images are pinned to the major version, some are just latest, some are exempted from Watchdog. But largely YOLO ;)
Dec 19 at 1:17pmWeb
Show threadmag37Dec 19

@maxheadroom @shollyethan

I'll be bold and toot my own horn here - #dockcheck is a shell script that aims to be very simple to get going but have a lot of modular options. Like labels, notifications, backups, auto pruning, and more. And can be scheduled with cron/systemd/other.

@shollyethan gave me the opportunity to write an article last week:
https://selfh.st/post/dockcheck-cli-container-updates

dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images

An introduction to updating container images from the command line with dockcheck

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