dockcheck

A script checking updates for docker images without pulling - then selectively auto-update some/all containers.

⚠️ URGENT!

The 2.0 change had a breaking error - compose-recreation might have included previous containers compose-file. If you've had odd errors, you can use the errorCheck.sh script to list current running container configs in a readable way. Look especially for Compose files listed in wrong places.
Recreate the suspicious container(s) manually with docker compose down && docker compose up -d.

📌 Recent changes:

• v0.2.1: Added option to exclude a list of containers.
• v0.2.1: Added multi-compose support (eg. override).
• v0.2.0: Fixed error with container:tag definition.
• v0.1.9: Fixed custom env-support.
• v0.1.8: Added option to prune dangling images.

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Dependencies:

Running docker (duh) and compose, either standalone or plugin.
regclient/regctl (Licensed under Apache-2.0 License)
User will be prompted to download regctl if not in PATH or PWD

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dockcheck.sh

$ ./dockcheck.sh -h
Syntax:     dockcheck.sh [OPTION] [part of name to filter]
Example:    dockcheck.sh -a -e nextcloud,heimdall

Options:
-h     Print this Help.
-a|y   Automatic updates, without interaction.
-n     No updates, only checking availability.
-p     Auto-Prune dangling images after update.
-e     Exclude containers, separated by comma.
-r     Allow updating images for docker run, wont update the container.

Basic example:

$ ./dockcheck.sh
. . .
Containers on latest version:
glances
homer

Containers with updates available:
1) adguardhome
2) syncthing
3) whoogle-search


Choose what containers to update:
Enter number(s) separated by comma, [a] for all - [q] to quit:

Then it proceedes to run pull and up -d on every container with updates.
After the updates are complete, you'll get prompted if you'd like to prune dangling images.

-r flag ⚠️ disclaimer and warning:

Wont auto-update the containers, only their images. (compose is recommended)
docker run dont support using new images just by restarting a container.
Containers need to be manually stopped, removed and created again to run on the new image.

🪲 Squashed Bugs:

• No options for running without updates or auto update.
• No filter to check only specific containers.
• Faulty registry checkups stopped the updates completely.
• No clear checks to skip containers producing errors.
• Multi-digest images didn't correctly check with registry, giving false positives on updates.
• Not working with filenames other than docker-compose.yml
• Lists are not alphabetically sorted (due to stacks and other parameters)
• Old docker-compose binary-check sometimes returned false error
• Stacks gets updated as whole, even if only one service is chosen.
• Path broken occationally (from inspect) - probably due to old docker-compose binary.
• Script breaks if one of the chosen containers are a docker run container.
• Using relative paths for volumes eg. ${PWD}/data:data will create the volumes where you stand.
• Having no curl/wget leads to corrupt regctl without alerting.
• Using custom .env files does not work.
• Pull not respecting image:tags, always defaulting to latest
• Not respecting multi-compose projects using multiple -f like ...override.yml or similar.
• Not being able to exclude specific containers.

🔨 Known issues

• No detailed error feedback (just skip + list what's skipped) .
• Not respecting --profile options when re-creating the container.

dc_brief.sh

Just a brief, slimmed down version of the script to only print what containers got updates, no updates or errors.

License

dockcheck is created and released under the GNU GPL v3.0 license.

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Check out a spinoff brother-project:

Palleri/dockcheck-web for a WebUI-front!

Special Thanks:

• 🦬 t0rnis
• 🐆 Palleri