Watchtower seems to be dead and is no longer being developed?

[NetRat88]

Hey together,

is watchtower still under development?
The last commits are more than 8 months ago and it seems that it will not be developed anymore isn't?

Is there any alternative or is there hope that things will continue here?

Thanks a lot!

[Criomby]

I really hope this project will be actively developed in the future but the lack of activity starts showing as issues and pull requests are stacking up without any word of the repo owner. Not even an absence notice or something.

In the meantime I looked for alternatives as I was having some issues with watchtower and found these projects:

• diun (seems to be the most watchtower-like alternative)
• whats-up-docker (includes a web UI, kind of like dockge)
• dockcheck (offers a simple CLI which I really like)

[huyz]

What kind of issues have you been running into? I've been using Watchtower for a month and I'm wondering what I need to watch out for

[Criomby]

Since I'm using watchtower to watch (!) my containers only as I don't want critical applications to be updated with potentially breaking changes automatically while I'm away, my experience may be different from yours.

Anyways, I am having issues with the reliability of pull actions as watchtower started having issues with some registries while they still work just fine from the command line and those errors pass silently even with email notifications enabled. The other thing is that watchtower messes with my images and removes tags (e.g. :latest gets changed to :<none>) after pre-pulling and checking for changes, which leads to issues when rebuilding containers or with other tools that rely on that information.