Docker is hard work - Lemmy
Well, after a while in the container world ive come to realise that keeping all
these containers up to date is hard work and time consuming with simple docker
compose. I’ve recently learnt that portainer may come to hand here. I believe
that feeding the yaml file through portainer allows the latter to take control
of updates. Correct? I have a Truenas Scale machine with a VM running my
containers as i find its the easiest approach for secure backps as i replicate
the VM to another small sever just in case. But i have several layers to
maintain. I dont like the idea of apps on Truenas as I’m worried i dont have
full control of app backup. Is there a simpler way to maintain my containers up
to date?
With Portainer you can do GitOps and have something like Dependabot notify you of updates. If you want it automated, use one of the recent Watchtower forks. It’s not recommended as automated updates may break things or introduce malware through compromised accounts, however it has worked pretty well for my personal stuff. I wouldn’t recommend it for business use.
With portainer business, you could easily build an update procedure yourself. Just create webhooks for the stacks you want to update and run a daily curl script that triggers these hooks.
You get 3 free business licences for free so there isn’t a reason to not use the community edition for small environments.
My first used license ‘expired’ after a year, even though I’m 99% sure they are perpetual. So I’m on my second, waiting for that to expire too…
No, you need to get a new one every year
I swear that wasn’t the case, but I guess I’m wrong. Where do you go to ‘trade in’ the licenses?
trilobite
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