trilobite6d ago

Docker is hard work

https://lemmy.ml/post/45493507

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?

Show threadBenjy33

One thing that helps with the “should I update?” anxiety: knowing what changed and whether it actually matters for your setup before pulling the trigger.

I built Maintenant (GitHub) and one of the features I added for exactly this reason is update detection — it checks OCI registries via HEAD requests (no image pulls, no bandwidth waste) and tells you which containers have newer images available. The Pro tier goes further with CVE detection and risk scoring that cross-references whether the container is exposed to the internet, has dependents, etc.

It won’t auto-update anything — that’s a deliberate choice, the tool is observe-only and never touches your stack. But it gives you the information to decide when updating is worth the risk, instead of either blindly auto-updating with Watchtower or manually checking Docker Hub every week.

Also does container monitoring, HTTP/TCP checks, heartbeats for cron jobs, and SSL cert tracking if you want to consolidate. Single container, zero config, ~17 MB RAM. AGPL-3.0.

Maintenant — Monitor everything. Manage nothing.

Unified monitoring for Docker and Kubernetes. One container, zero config, total visibility on your containers, endpoints, SSL certificates, cron jobs and system resources.

Apr 5 at 4:30pmWeb
Show threadAlfredolin6d ago
Did you use AI building this?