Other utility services installation

Chrony + Autoheal

Chrony is an NTP service, we are using for content synchronization.

More info: https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/

Autoheal is a service that monitors and restarts unhealthy docker containers.

More info: https://hub.docker.com/r/willfarrell/autoheal/

Logrotate

Logrotate service can crawl for logfiles and rotate them.

We highly recommend installing this service!

More info: https://hub.docker.com/r/blacklabelops/logrotate/

Watchtower

Watchtower is an application that will monitor your running Docker containers and watch for changes to the images that those containers were originally started from. If the watchtower detects that an image has changed, it will automatically restart the container using the new image.

The image tag should include the registry too if not the watchtower cannot update it.

More info: https://containrrr.dev/watchtower

Configuration

The sample is configured to check updates for the containers are listed at command every weekday at 8:30 AM in CET.

Environment:

• WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP=true -> The old image will be deleted after update.
• WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE=0 30 8 * * 1-5 -> Cron schedule(includes sec), it means check 8:30 AM between Monday and Friday.
• WATCHTOWER_POLL_INTERVAL=30 -> It means it will check for updates every 30 sec, cannot be provided with schedule!
• TZ=CET -> The timezone used by the watchtower. If you are using the schedule, you should configure it to your timezone.
  • Timezone list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

Command:

• If not empty, only the listed containers will be checked for updates!