Merge pull request #208 from cnrmck/master

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Simon Aronsson 6 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Every few minutes watchtower will pull the latest *centurylink/wetty-cli* image
## Usage
Watchtower is itself packaged as a Docker container so installation is as simple as pulling the `v2tec/watchtower` image.
Watchtower is itself packaged as a Docker container so installation is as simple as pulling the `v2tec/watchtower` image. If you are using ARM based architecture, pull the appropriate `v2tec/watchtower:armhf-<tag>` image from the [v2tec Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/v2tec/watchtower/tags/).
Since the watchtower code needs to interact with the Docker API in order to monitor the running containers, you need to mount */var/run/docker.sock* into the container with the -v flag when you run it.
@ -43,6 +43,18 @@ docker run -d \
If pulling images from private Docker registries, supply registry authentication credentials with the environment variables `REPO_USER` and `REPO_PASS`
or by mounting the host's docker config file into the container (at the root of the container filesystem `/`).
Passing environment variables:
```bash
docker run -d \
--name watchtower \
-e REPO_USER=username \
-e REPO_PASS=password \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
v2tec/watchtower container_to_watch --debug
```
Also check out [this Stack Overflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/30494145/7872793) for more options on how to pass environment variables.
Mounting the host's docker config file:
```bash
docker run -d \
--name watchtower \
@ -51,7 +63,7 @@ docker run -d \
v2tec/watchtower container_to_watch --debug
```
If you mount the config file as described below, be sure to also prepend the url for the registry when starting up your watched image (you can omit the https://). Here is a complete docker-compose.yml file that starts up a docker container from a private repo at dockerhub and monitors it with watchtower. Note the command argument changing the interval to 30s rather than the default 5 minutes.
If you mount the config file as described above, be sure to also prepend the url for the registry when starting up your watched image (you can omit the https://). Here is a complete docker-compose.yml file that starts up a docker container from a private repo at dockerhub and monitors it with watchtower. Note the command argument changing the interval to 30s rather than the default 5 minutes.
```json
version: "3"

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