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How Do you keep your services updated? (piefed.jeena.net)

submitted 2 months ago by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Back in the day it was nice, apt get update && apt get upgrade and you were done.

But today every tool/service has it's own way to being installed and updated:

docker:latest
docker:v1.2.3
custom script
git checkout v1.2.3
same but with custom migration commands afterwards
custom commands change from release to release
expect to do update as a specific user
update nginx config
update own default config and service has dependencies on the config changes
expect new versions of tools
etc.

I selfhost around 20 services like PieFed, Mastodon, PeerTube, Paperless-ngx, Immich, open-webui, Grafana, etc. And all of them have some dependencies which need to be updated too.

And nowadays you can't really keep running on an older version especially when it's internet facing.

So anyway, what are your strategies how to keep sanity while keeping all your self hosted services up to date?

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[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

For docker compose I have a part of the script that gets all subdirs of "projects" dir and for each one does an update (that way any new service will be updated without having manually specify in the script) for everything else I just hard coded the update process.

Generally 90% of my updates are just running the script, on the other 10% I do some manual work (like updating configs, etc)

But for the most part this is me refusing to use already existing tools that could probably do most of this better