This video gave me the confidence to switch. Question for you all. I switch over to DockHand and I was wondering how do you all track what version you a running of service when there is an update available… so you know what to rollback to if there is an issue. it seems like there isn’t anything native. What the best practice. Sometimes problems aren’t discovered until long after update.
If you are using compose files with the tag latest you can edit that to be the previous version. But that may not work in every case because some updates may also update the data to fit the new version meaning you would have to roll back the data as well. A simple, but not really elegant approach is to run docker in a VM and roll that VM back which of course comes with the problem that it roll everything back.
In practice most of the applications I use are very stable so it’s a non-issue except for one app: https://twenty.com/ . I have not talked much about this app because it feels very beta and has had a lot of breakage from updates and is really the only one update with an immediate plan to roll back after testing.
Does this affect us. It seems some say since dockhand is only scanning the image and doesn’t pass it the .env or compose to scan, we are unaffected. That seem to make sense to me if that is true but I’m a newbie and don’t know if that is true.
hoping someone smarter and with more experience than me can confirm my understanding that we are not affected.
I might be crazy… never a good way to start… right?
Q1: Versioning of stack (compose and .env files)
I’ve been using dockhand and have been experimenting and changing my compose files alot as I fix things or add vars etc or limits etc. It’s gotten messy so I thought can’t I use Gitea to manage all these changes? and it can… but I have to shell out to set a message and commit and sync… as I couldn find a way to do it inside Dockhand. Does anyone know of a way to do this? I saw git-sync that watches for mods and pushes commits to gitea but doesn’t have a way to set the message… close to what I want.
In researching I ran across Komodo… It looked interesting but don’t know how it compares to Dockhand. I’m still new to this so I don’t thikn I should keep hopping from app to app… or I’ll never get a deep understanding of these apps.
Q2: Long term reporting
I had some Oom and flipfloping of unhealthing/healthy containers. But I don’t have a tool that keeps historical data. The graphs in Dockhand are real-time. Netdata was suggested. What do you all recommend? Ideally something that compliments Dockhand.
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