Dockheck is a CLI tool to automate docker image updates. Interactively or unattended with notifications, image backups, exclude/include, labels, autoprune and more. Can be run as is, without configuration or with extensive options.

This year my AFK-life have been intense, so development have been slow and mainly squashing bugs. But others have kept contributed with suggestions on improvements, ideas on new features and some ready to merge patches.
So these last couple of weeks I’ve tried to squeeze in some time to bring it together in v0.8.0 and now v0.8.1.

New stuff in short:

Docker Compose -ready:

• Now possible to run dockcheck within its own docker compose container (or docker run).
• Easily set up your notifications and options, either in conf-file or env-vars, then let it run as any other container.
• Optionally run it once interactively with docker run, no need for configs.
• Run interactively between your scheduled compose setup with docker exec -it as usual.

New options:

• -N No updates or checks; simulating updates to test notifications unconditionally.
• -E Exclude containers from applying updates but check available, separated by comma.
• -C Temporarily use default configs - override dockcheck.config file.
• -o Hides the “No updates available” message and only shows updateable images.

New notification templates:

• Home Assistant Event Integration
• XMPP
• Bark

I’m very happy this project still got traction considering all the large alternatives around. Wonderful community!

Disclaimer: No AI tools used what so ever from my end and encouraging contributors to refrain and/or explain.