Disabling color through environment variables (#598)

* This patch adds support for disabling color through environment variables.
- NO_COLOR: https://no-color.org/
- CLICOLOR,CLICOLOR_FORCE: https://bixense.com/clicolors/ ( [logrus built-in](6699a89a23/text_formatter.go (L46)) )

* use viper/cobra and add documentation. (https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower/pull/598#pullrequestreview-463814669)

Co-authored-by: Simon Aronsson <simme@arcticbit.se>

cmd/root.go

@@ -63,6 +63,17 @@ func Execute() {
 func PreRun(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 	f := cmd.PersistentFlags()
 
+	if enabled, _ := f.GetBool("no-color"); enabled {
+		log.SetFormatter(&log.TextFormatter{
+			DisableColors: true,
+		})
+	} else {
+		// enable logrus built-in support for https://bixense.com/clicolors/
+		log.SetFormatter(&log.TextFormatter{
+			EnvironmentOverrideColors: true,
+		})
+	}
+
 	if enabled, _ := f.GetBool("debug"); enabled {
 		log.SetLevel(log.DebugLevel)
 	}

docs/arguments.md

@@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ Environment Variable: WATCHTOWER_TRACE
              Default: false
 ```
 
+## ANSI colors
+Disable ANSI color escape codes in log output.
+
+```
+            Argument: --no-color
+Environment Variable: NO_COLOR
+                Type: Boolean
+             Default: false
+```
+
 ## Docker host
 Docker daemon socket to connect to. Can be pointed at a remote Docker host by specifying a TCP endpoint as "tcp://hostname:port".
 

internal/flags/flags.go

@@ -140,7 +140,12 @@ func RegisterSystemFlags(rootCmd *cobra.Command) {
 		"",
 		viper.GetString("WATCHTOWER_HTTP_API_TOKEN"),
 		"Sets an authentication token to HTTP API requests.")
-	
+	// https://no-color.org/
+	flags.BoolP(
+		"no-color",
+		"",
+		viper.IsSet("NO_COLOR"),
+		"Disable ANSI color escape codes in log output")
 	flags.StringP(
 		"scope",
 		"",