nicholas-fedor/watchtower
Automate Docker container image updates observed · 2026-10-21
Health v2 · maintenance only
84/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 45
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 7
- age_days: 642
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 0
- n_releases_24m: 62
Adoption not part of the score
4655 stars · 83 forks observed · 2026-10-21
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Watchtower is a Go application that runs as a Docker container and automatically updates running containers when new images are pushed to a registry. It pulls the new image, gracefully stops the old container, and restarts it with the original deployment options.
Use cases
- automatically update docker containers when new images are released
- keep homelab self-hosted services up to date
- pull latest image and restart container with same options
- schedule container image updates without manual intervention
- update containers from docker hub or private registry
When to choose
- you run a homelab, media center, or dev environment with many Docker containers
- you want hands-off image updates by just pushing to a registry
- you prefer a simple single-container solution over full CI/CD
When to avoid
- you run production or commercial workloads - the project explicitly recommends Kubernetes with CI/CD instead
- you need controlled, reviewed deployments rather than automatic updates
- you run an older Docker version below the supported API range
Facets
application · maturity active
deployment container-runtime workflow-automation cli self-hosted go self-hosted docker-image-updates container-updates homelab watchtower-fork devops containers automation docker linux
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower · fetched 2026-10-21 · 95090cf81b3d
- homepage: http://watchtower.nickfedor.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2e5f29593971
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nicholas-fedor/watchtower | main | 84 |
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