“now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin”

Essentially the definition of enshittification.

Part of the app resides on the GitHub infrastructure, where GitHub stores, processes and displays results. So their costs are not zero.

But GitHub could take a “tax the rich” approach to pricing by charging enterprise customers more for self-hostingand leave it free for others.

A lot of open source is funded like that— most funding for a project comes from a very few companies and everything else uses it free or for very low donations or costs.

Just self host the whole thing with Forgejo. I run a few github actions on runners all on my own stuff.

don't want that, don't buy into anything coming out of silicon valley ever. that is their entire culture

My issue was that Watchtower would sporadically just fumble the update, making re-deployment sometimes necessary. It wasn't a tag issue. At least none that I could see. Of course, the possibility exists that I could just very well be a dumbass. I just assumed that to be the Docker updates that have happened over the past year, and, without any new code, it just broke. There was a recent Docker/Portainer issue. It happens.

I either read somewhere or someone tipped me off to the fork. I can only speak for my network, but the fork did the trick. Have had zero issues, and I've been using it for a good while. Now, I notice that Watchtower fork hasn't been updated in 6 months. I guess it's either been abandoned again or there just hasn't been a need to do so.

https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower

Switched awhile back, no issues.

Tugtainer is pretty nice, and has a webui.

I haven't used it, but this project looks interesting: https://github.com/dkorecko/PatchPanda

It doesn't just update you containers, it checks the release notes too.

I'm liking the simplicity of dockcheck

https://github.com/mag37/dockcheck