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Automatic updates of docker containers.

* [Github](https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower)
* [DockerHub image used](https://hub.docker.com/r/containrrr/watchtower)
* [Github](https://github.com/openserbia/watchtower)
* [DockerHub image used](https://hub.docker.com/r/openserbia/watchtower)

> The original [`containrrr/watchtower`](https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower) was archived (read-only) on 2025-12-17 and no longer works on current Docker Engine (28/29). This guide uses the actively maintained, drop-in fork [`openserbia/watchtower`](https://github.com/openserbia/watchtower) — same flags, labels, and behavior, just a different image name. Other maintained forks (e.g. `nicholas-fedor/watchtower`) work too.

Watchtower is an application that will monitor the running Docker containers
and watch for changes to the images that those containers
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services:

watchtower:
image: containrrr/watchtower:latest
image: openserbia/watchtower:latest
container_name: watchtower
hostname: watchtower
restart: unless-stopped
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