How do you keep up?

[pika@sh.itjust.works]

I don't use Watchtower myself for the same reasons described, but I was under the understanding if you had a container as a dependency on another container that if you took the dependency down it also took the container down. Is this not actually true?

[fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com]

I am not the person to be asking, I am no docker expert. It's is my understanding depends_on: defines starting order. Once a service is started, it's started. If it has an internal check for "healthy" I believe watchtower will restart unhealthy containers.

This is blind leading the blind though, I would check the documentation if using watchtower. We should both go read the "depends on" documents as we both use it.

[pika@sh.itjust.works]

Strangely it sounds like that's correct. I was under the understanding that depends_on cared about it past start as well but it does not. It doesn't look like there's a native way of turning containers that are depending on one another when you turn the dependency off. It looks like the current recommended way of doing it is either with a Docker compose file (which doesn't help if the process crashed), or having a third party script on the host monitor is the dependencies and if one is considered offline, it turns the dependees off.

[fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com]

That was my conclusion as well, however I am at work and it's not appropriate to be reading docker documentation. Thank you for the write up.

[mangopenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Komodo is a full management setup, similar to Portainer, Dockge, etc.. It works reasonably well.

Watchtower doesn't require any labeling unless you want to exclude a container.