Server docker image update documentation

Hosting Containers
#1

I am confused why I can't find a way to know when the Channels DVR Server is updated. I saw a post that the Docker image was recently updated. I run on Synology Container Manager which runs Docker images. When an image is updated, I see that information for other images. The images uniformly use 'latest' as the image tag, except for fancybits/channels-dvr which uses the tag tve because I use tve which still appears to be officially beta.

There's quite a bit of documentation about Channels DVR Server Pre-Release process, but this is not about updating the actual base software installed on a server. Is there is list of Docker images documenting when they were released and what changes are included?

#2

No. They're usually (not always) mentioned in a post here.
They don't get updated that often.
The recently updated Channels DVR images were to add log rotation.

I personally use diun to get notified when docker images are updated Getting notified of image updates with Diun
Others prefer watchtower.

#3

I am sure you checked the official webpage and this link just passed your eyes ...

#4

Yes I saw that and realized it is not the base server image. That page does not document the limited updates to the Docker image. The naming convention is confusing.

#5

Diun seems like a good possibility. The other easy option is to follow https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/fancybits/channels-dvr/tags for changes.

#6

True, but there are no release notes anywhere that I know of, besides a post in this Forum.
Most of the previous updates were to set a port, update headless chrome compatibility, nvidia transcode support, etc.

#7

Channels DVR Server updates itself.

In fact, the docker images don't even have binaries in them, and download them when it's first propped up. All of our installers do this.

There's rarely any reasons to update the docker image itself.

#8

Right, basically what I said.

#9

So it seems we should ignore changes contrary to how we handle other Docker images. How will we be notified if there is a reason to update the Docker image?

#10

if there was ever a major reason, we'd report it here in the community. But in 9 years, there's been nothing but additions to the image, not anything that would disrupt anyone. And thats after like maybe 4 changes.

If updates ever became more frequent with disrupting changes, we would make changes to this.

#11

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