TL;DR: is there an app that can alert me when a new version of some other app is available?
I have about 12 - 15 services (freshrss, heimdall, photoprism, Wordpress, etc) running using docker compose spread across 4 hosts. Through my self-hosting journey I’ve been burned a few times using “latest” images so I now pin app image versions within compose.
The problem then becomes that every couple of weeks, I have to go out to different GitHub’s, docker hub, etc. to see if a new update for that service is available. It gets a bit tedious with 12-15 services every couple of weeks so I need a centralized and more efficient way of “keeping up”.
Is there some type of app that can track whether an app/service has a new version available? Ideally it can send me some type of notification, self-hostable, and ideally not Portainer?
I just subscribe with RSS to the releases page on github of each project
This sounds like the simplest and most effective solution. Thanks!
RSS feeds
Love that username tho!! Yeah might just do RSS. I already run FreshRSS and it’s ability to filter stuff would probably come in handy too
I use renovate myself. Via a cron job against a self hosted gitea instance.
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate
Works for many dependency types including docker images. You can also have it pin non version tags (using digests).
Watchtower will automatically update docker containers.
Argus https://release-argus.io
This looks interesting too
Check out WhatsupDocker. I use the same to inform me of updates. It is self-hostable as well. I then use the WUD widget for homepage to let me know that there’s an update available on my dashboard
I use diun and rss feeds. So far I’ve had different levels of success with different services.
For example for Immich the RSS is a lot more useful because it lets you know when you need to run manual steps.
