Someone recommended it for keeping my containers up to date automatically. I checked out the repo and it seems too good to be true. It just updates your containers when a new image is available and everything just works out of the box? I’m a bit scared of just leaving it alone in case it might break something. The fact that it doesn’t come with a gui also scares me a bit.
Does anyone here use it and can recommend it? Any horror stories?
Watchtower itself works great, it doesn’t need a GUI for what it does.
But updating containers in general, either manually or automatically, always carries a risk of something breaking due to the new update.
One thing you can do is make sure you’re not using
:latesttags in your compose files, and instead pin major versions likepostgres:13And of course make sure you have backups going back multiple points in time in case something does break, and test those backups!