Installation¶

Sources¶

Container Image¶

Binary¶

GitHub Releases

CLI Commands¶

Pulling the Container Image¶

Docker HubGitHub

docker pull ghcr.io/sidneyojr/watchtower:latest

docker pull ghcr.io/sidneyojr/watchtower:latest

Downloading the Binary¶

The following will download and extract the binary to the current directory:

Windows (amd64)Linux (amd64)macOS (amd64)

PowerShell

iwr (iwr https://api.github.com/repos/sidneyojr/watchtower/releases/latest | ConvertFrom-Json).assets.where({$_.name -like "*windows_amd64*.zip"}).browser_download_url -OutFile watchtower.zip; Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem; $zip = [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead("$PWD\watchtower.zip"); $zip.Entries | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'watchtower.exe'} | ForEach-Object {[System.IO.Compression.ZipFileExtensions]::ExtractToFile($_, "$PWD\watchtower.exe", $true)}; $zip.Dispose(); Remove-Item watchtower.zip; if (Test-Path ".\watchtower.exe") { Write-Host "Successfully installed watchtower.exe to current directory" } else { Write-Host "Failed to install watchtower.exe" }

Bash

curl -L $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/sidneyojr/watchtower/releases/latest | grep -o 'https://[^"]*linux_amd64[^"]*\.tar\.gz') | tar -xz -C . watchtower && if [ -f ./watchtower ]; then echo "Successfully installed watchtower to current directory"; else echo "Failed to install watchtower"; fi

Bash

curl -L $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/sidneyojr/watchtower/releases/latest | grep -o 'https://[^"]*darwin_amd64[^"]*\.tar\.gz') | tar -xz -C . watchtower && if [ -f ./watchtower ]; then echo "Successfully installed watchtower to current directory"; else echo "Failed to install watchtower"; fi

Note

Review the release page for additional architectures (e.g., arm, arm64, i386, riscv64).

Supported Architectures¶

Watchtower supports the following architectures:

amd64
i386
armhf
arm64v8
riscv64