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I just has the honors of writing a guest article on selfh.st about my ever so slowly evolving project, dockcheck.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Watchtower hadn't been updated in like 3 years or something. It's a dead project.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What more does it need to do

It works prefectly

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Stopped working for me with a recent docker cli update. That's how I even found out it's totally abandoned.

I'm not a big fan of running software that has access to the internet once it's abandoned like this.

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Sorry for spamming in this thread, but if you rely on Watchtower, there's a maintained fork I recommend: https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is used by literal millions. I'm sure if there was a security issue or would be reported.

Changes for the reason of making changes doesn't make sense either

Anyway, I use podman now. It had this functionality built in

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How many people use it makes no difference if there is no devs fixing security bugs.

I switched to DIUN, but it doesn't do updates only notifications. That's why I'm excited to look at OP's library.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Are there security issues reported? Is open source

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Not for the latest and future versions of Docker.

This fork works, though: https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago
[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your point being that I am not currently using it? Or that I should be looking for alternatives since I am currently using it?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

I used to use it and switched away because it's not maintained and I had errors with recent docker cli