Customize usage with labels

Label on container or service can override the default behavior.

You can use the LABEL instruction on the Dockerfile or add label on the run command: docker run -it -d --label dockupdater.disable=true dockupdater/dockupdater.

See this example of stack file to add a label on a service (Docker swarm):

version: "3.6"

services:
  dockupdater:
    image: dockupdater/dockupdater
    deploy:
      labels:
        dockupdater.disable: "true"
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role == manager

Disable update

Label: dockupdater.disable
Availability: containers services
Example: dockupdater.disable: "true"

Disable update for the service or container.

Enable update

Label: dockupdater.enable
Availability: containers services
Example: dockupdater.enable: "true"

When dockupdater is start with option –label, this label enable update for container or service.

Latest

Label: dockupdater.latest
Availability: containers services
Equivalent option: --latests
Example: dockupdater.latest: "true"

With this label, the container or service will always pull the latest tag.

Notifiers

Label: dockupdater.notifiers
Availability: containers services
Equivalent option: --notifiers
Type: List - Space separated
Example: dockupdater.notifiers: ""

This override the default notifiers. You can disable notification for a specific container or service to set the label to an empty value (like the example). See the notifications documentation.

Recreate first

Label: dockupdater.recreate_first
Availability: containers
Equivalent option: --recreate-first
Example: dockupdater.recreate_first: "true"

To minimize application down time, we could create the new container before deleting the old. See complete documentations on options docs.

Starts

Label: dockupdater.starts
Availability: containers services
Equivalent option: --start
Example: dockupdater.starts: "weight:1,Service1 Service2 weight:999,Container1"

Override the containers/services to start after an update. Set multiple container/service name or regex pattern by separate it with a space. Can be specified with a weight. See the --start option for more informations.

Stops

Label: dockupdater.stops
Availability: containers services
Equivalent option: --stop
Example: dockupdater.starts: "weight:1,Container1 Service2 weight:1,Service1"

Override the containers/services to stop before an update. Set multiple container/service name or regex pattern by separate it with a space. Can be specified with a weight. See the --stop option for more informations.

Stop signal

Label: dockupdater.stop_signal
Availability: containers
Equivalent option: --stop-signal
Example: dockupdater.stop_signal: 1

Define a stop signal to send to the container instead of SIGKILL. Can be string or int.

Template file

Label: dockupdater.template_file
Availability: containers services
Equivalent option: --template-file
Example: dockupdater.template_file: "/template.j2"

That override for this container or service the notification message to use. See notifications docs for example.

Wait time

Label: dockupdater.wait
Availability: containers services
Equivalent option: --wait
Example: dockupdater.wait: 60

Define a time in seconds to wait after an update before updating any others containers or services.

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