Automating updates

[aaaaaa123456789]

Hello! I'm considering using this application, but I see no way of ensuring it remains up to date other than manually checking the repository every now and then. Do you have any plans for this? What would be your suggestion to make sure it remains updated?

[chrisjbawden]

I totally agree—it’d be much easier if updates could happen automatically, and it’s something I’ve been thinking about. At the moment what I do is just run this script to grab and install the latest version, ie -

curl -L -o dockermanager.deb https://github.com/chrisjbawden/cockpit-dockermanager/releases/download/latest/dockermanager.deb && sudo dpkg -i dockermanager.deb && rm dockermanager.deb

That pulls down the newest .deb, installs it, and cleans up after itself. Well it was just something simple I could implement with a cron task.

Anyway, this has been something I have been thinking about. One thought was to try and use GitHub's Pages solution to host a repo - allowing a more mainstream install and update workflow - ie; add repo, apt update/upgrade. I will need to explore this a little more but If you’ve got ideas or something specific in mind, let me know!

[aaaaaa123456789]

An APT repository would work just fine, indeed. You might want to consider just pushing your .deb upstream somewhere.

[miketardif]

Any plans to release this as a docker container? That would solve the update problem

[chrisjbawden]

ok i have setup a ad-hoc repo using the github pages (currently testing in the feature/docs branch) -

echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://chrisjbawden.github.io/cockpit-dockermanager stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cockpit-dockermanager.list

apt update

apt install dockermanager

obviously it would be great to get it into an upstream repo but from my research this has a few requirements.

[chrisjbawden]

Any plans to release this as a docker container? That would solve the update problem

like portainer?

[chrisjbawden]

apologies, closed in error

i have merged the branch i was dev. the docs on that contained the ad-hoc repository. at least for deb. based distro it will make it easier to deploy and maintain (update). I havent put to much in the documentation yet because its still a little ad-hoc, and pending further review.

[chrisjbawden]

i have also tagged this issue with the "help wanted" label just in case someone wants to sponsor this for ingestion into an upstream repo.

[chrisjbawden]

just a quick update on this — im planning to update the docs to reference using the github page for this repo as an upstream repository for deb-based systems for installation and updates (i’ve been using it for a while now and it seems to work well).

i’ve am also working on a rhel repository/rpm component, so i’ll aim to capture that in the docs as well (this was only developed recently).