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Can watchtower watch itself? #611
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Can I apply the label to watchtower so it updates itself? |
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victorcmoura
Aug 2, 2020
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Hi, @svh1985.
Yes, you can. As far as I could understand from the source code, Watchtower should change its own container name, run the updated copy (so, at least temporarily, there will be two instances running at the same time), and stop the oldest. |
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Hi, @svh1985.
Yes, you can.
As far as I could understand from the source code, Watchtower should change its own container name, run the updated copy (so, at least temporarily, there will be two instances running at the same time), and stop the oldest.