How to Keep Containers Up-to-Date with What’s Up Docker (WUD)

Danie
Colorful graphic featuring a cartoon whale wearing sunglasses and a cap, promoting Docker container management tutorial.

This looks really promising over both Watchtower and DIUN. It takes a bit more tweaking to get to where you want to be, but some key highlights that I really like about WUD are:

  • Plenty of docker container labels and environmental settings
  • Being able to custom name any specific docker image with wud.display.name: Maria DB label in the docker compose file for the container
  • Being able to just watch the major, minor, and patch version changes with the ‘wud.tag.include’ label
  • Being able to set a changelog link per image with the ‘wud.link.template’ label (although this is a pain to set up)
  • Being able to actually trigger an update from within WUD’s GUI with the prune and auto settings set

All past solutions up to now have been really messy with notifications not really pointing you to exactly which image is ready for updating (when you have three Postgres database images) but WUD is zooming straight into which one/s are ready to update.

Once I bed down what is working well, I may do a video about WUD in the near future.

See a how-to at https://linuxiac.com/how-to-keep-containers-up-to-date-with-whats-up-docker-wud and their GitHub project at https://getwud.github.io/wud