Watchtower: How to disable watchtower on a single container?

[Skaronator]

The Readme doesn't answer this question directly. I assume setting com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable to false will disable updates for a single container? Do I need to change something on my start parameter?

[stffabi]

Thanks for your report. In order to use the label you have to pass --label-enable after having passed this flag, only containers with the label com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable set to true will be updated.

[Skaronator]

Is there a way to make the exact opposite? I'd like to auto-update all containers except a single one.

[redge76]

Exactly what I need for my comment #167 . Unfortunately, it seems there is no safe way to do this.

[stffabi]

It would be possible to change the behaviour, that containers which have the label com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable set to false are always excluded from the updates. Those would be also excluded if the --label-enable wasn't specified.

@redge76 would that be a possible trade-off for you? You would then need to always create your containers with the label set to false.

[redge76]

That's better than nothing.
And it's true that the option "--label-enable" has no added value.
If there is a label, then watchtower honors it. If not, default behaviour.
It's now 100% safe because you can always forget to set this label for a new container, but it's a lot better.

[stffabi]

Yeah, I know it's not the best solution. But it would be a trade-off where we don't break anything for the people out there but at least give some safer behaviour.

[Skaronator]

Thanks!

[stffabi]

@Skaronator you're welcome. Please note a new release is scheduled for in about one to two weeks.

[redge76]

Hi,
Still no release ?

[Keridos]

please release this. My logs are full of spam because of some containers that watchtower wants to update, but fails to do so.