watchtower

Watchtower

A process for automating Docker container base image updates.

Quick Start

With watchtower you can update the running version of your containerized app simply by pushing a new image to the Docker Hub or your own image registry.

Watchtower will pull down your new image, gracefully shut down your existing container and restart it with the same options that were used when it was deployed initially. Run the watchtower container with the following command:

$ docker run --detach 
    --name watchtower 
    --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock 
    containrrr/watchtower

Watchtower is intended to be used in homelabs, media centers, local dev environments, and similar. We do not recommend using Watchtower in a commercial or production environment. If that is you, you should be looking into using Kubernetes. If that feels like too big a step for you, please look into solutions like MicroK8s and k3s that take away a lot of the toil of running a Kubernetes cluster.

Documentation

The full documentation is available at https://containrrr.dev/watchtower.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

nils måsén ? ?	Simon Aronsson ? ?	James ️ ?	Florian ?	Brian DeHamer ?	Ross Cadogan	stffabi ?
Austin	David Gardner ?	Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann	Rodrigo Damazio Bovendorp	Ryan Kuba ?	cnrmck	Harry Walter
Robotex	Gerald Pape	fomk	Sven Gottwald ?	techknowlogick	waja	Scott Albertson
Jason Huddleston	Napster	Maxim	Max Schmitt	cron410	Paulo Henrique	Kaleb Elwert
Bill Butler	Mario Tacke	Mark Woodbridge	Ansem93	Luka Peschke	Zois Pagoulatos ? ?	Alexandre Menif
Andrey	Armando Lüscher	Ryan Budke	Kaloyan Raev ️	sixth	Gina Häußge	Max H.
Jungkook Park	Jan Kristof Nidzwetzki	lukas	Ameya Shenoy	Raymon de Looff	John Clayton	Germs2004
Lukas Willburger	Oliver Cervera	Victor Moura ️	Maximilian Brandau ️	Andrew	sixcorners	Arne Jørgensen ️ ?
PatSki123	Valentine Zavadsky ️	Alexander Voronin ?	Oliver Mueller	Sebastiaan Tammer	miosame	Andrew Metzger ?
Pierre Grimaud	Matt Doran	MihailITPlace	bugficks	Michael	D. Domig	Ben Osheroff
David H.	Chander Ganesan	yrien30	ksurl ?	rg9400	Turtle Kalus	Srihari Thalla
Thomas Gaudin	hydrargyrum	Reinout van Rees	DasSkelett	zenjabba	Dan Quan	modem7
Igor Zibarev	Patrice	James White	Dirk Kok	EDIflyer	Jauder Ho	Tamal Das
guangwu	Florian Hübner	Andrii Bratanin

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!