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Description
Describe the bug
Watchtower does not seem to be able to create a new instance of watchtower because http api port is allready used by current watchtower instance.
time="2021-05-04T06:41:49Z" level=debug msg="Renaming container /watchtower (7466244452a6) to bVxoHrZQQfmJwmVPzqUzmrEWtaigXveU" │
│ time="2021-05-04T06:41:49Z" level=info msg="Creating /watchtower" │
│ time="2021-05-04T06:41:51Z" level=debug msg="Starting container /watchtower (f2211634e4c3)" │
│ time="2021-05-04T06:41:52Z" level=error msg="Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint watchtower (0c44b36fce32cb7f8b15a6ae631577478607525311c1dcd03adebe017933944e): Bind for 0.0.0.0:8080 failed: port is │
│ already allocated"

To Reproduce
Enable http api:
-p 8080:8080 -e WATCHTOWER_HTTP_API_UPDATE=true -e WATCHTOWER_HTTP_API_TOKEN=Token