wg-easy/docs/content/examples/tutorials/auto-updates.md

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Auto Updates

Docker Compose

With Docker Compose wg-easy can be updated with a single command:

cd /etc/docker/containers/wg-easy
sudo docker compose up -d --pull always

Watchtower

If you want the updates to be fully automatic you can install Watchtower. This will check for updates every day at 4:00 AM and update the container if a new version is available.

File: /etc/docker/containers/watchtower/docker-compose.yml

services:
    watchtower:
        image: containrrr/watchtower:latest
        volumes:
            - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
        env_file:
            - watchtower.env
        restart: unless-stopped

File: /etc/docker/containers/watchtower/watchtower.env

WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP=true
WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE=0 0 4 * * *
TZ=Europe/Berlin

# Email
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS_LEVEL=info
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS=email
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_FROM=mail@example.com
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_TO=mail@example.com
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER=smtp.example.com
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_USER=mail@example.com
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_PASSWORD="SuperSecurePassword"
# WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SERVER_PORT=587

cd /etc/docker/containers/watchtower
sudo docker compose up -d

Docker Run

sudo docker stop wg-easy
sudo docker rm wg-easy
sudo docker pull ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy

And then run the docker run -d \ ... command from Docker Run again.

Podman

To update wg-easy (and every container that has auto updates enabled), you can run the following command:

sudo podman auto-update