Hi there! I’d like to share my project with you all.

What is this? Vigil is a lightweight, self-hosted dashboard that watches your Docker images and tells you when updates are available. It’s a ready-to-run Docker setup with a simple install scripts. I know most people don’t like scripts, but since I’m a tech noob I find it pretty useful. For all the pros out there, you can check the script by yourself. This is my first “real world” project so it might not be as polished as other apps out there. It’s a hobby that I started cultivating a few months ago and I’m pretty excited with the results. However, it’d only mean something significant, if other people use it and give their own opinions about it.

If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate you trying it out and leaving a review or suggestions on the repo or even here. I’d do my best to answer most of the comments.

Edited because the link wasn’t showing up and giving more details about the project. https://github.com/kumucode/vigil.git

    • kill_dash_nine@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      For me, it’s all about finding the right balance. I don’t want to have to manually update for every little bug fix version bump. Most software I find that major.minor version tags, if they exist, are a good compromise with daily auto updates unless it’s a really fast releasing software where just a major version makes sense. I usually just track releases on GitHub or wherever the source is hosted and bump as I need. That takes care of probably 90-95% of the containers I run.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Automatic updates for bug fixes (e.g. 1.0.0 to 1.0.1) are usually fine - it’s major and minor updates that are scarier. I’ve never used Watchtower so I’m not sure if it has an option to only allow bugfixes.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        That would depend on each project properly using semver, which is unlikely.

        Personally, I just risk all the updates. It’s not a huge deal to recover.

        • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          55 minutes ago

          Yeah, I’m a developer and my teammates don’t always follow semver standards. I try to but every now and then it’s really hard to know which is the right move. I’ve also had breaks because of minor increments and the author refused to roll back the change because the new behavior was consistent with the spec [that didn’t change].

    • 1step@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      17 hours ago

      Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking about when I started this project. I’ve noticed that many home labers are a bit skeptical with automatic updates. I’m glad you liked the idea