WatchtowerWhat is Watchtower?
It is an application that will monitor your running Docker containers and watch for changes to the images that those containers were originally started from. If it detects that an image has changed, it will automatically restart the container using the new image.
Watchtower is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
NotificationsContainer selectionPrivate registriesLinked containersRemote hostsSecure connectionsLifecycle hooks
Watchtower Pros & Cons
Pros of Watchtower
- ✓Automation Friendly
- ✓Easy setup
- ✓Great community
- ✓Open-source
- ✓Small footprint
Cons of Watchtower
No cons listed yet.
Watchtower Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Watchtower?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
