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watchtower/docs/http-api-mode.md

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Watchtower provides an HTTP API mode that enables an HTTP endpoint that can be requested to trigger container updating. The current available endpoint list is:
- `/v1/update` - triggers an update for all of the containers monitored by this Watchtower instance.
---
To enable this mode, use the flag `--http-api-update`. For example, in a Docker Compose config file:
```yaml
version: '3'
services:
app-monitored-by-watchtower:
image: myapps/monitored-by-watchtower
labels:
- "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"
watchtower:
image: containrrr/watchtower
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
command: --debug --http-api-update
environment:
- WATCHTOWER_HTTP_API_TOKEN=mytoken
labels:
- "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=false"
ports:
- 8080:8080
```
By default, enabling this mode prevents periodic polls (i.e. what is specified using `--interval` or `--schedule`). To run periodic updates regardless, pass `--http-api-periodic-polls`.
Notice that there is an environment variable named WATCHTOWER_HTTP_API_TOKEN. To prevent external services from accidentally triggering image updates, all of the requests have to contain a "Token" field, valued as the token defined in WATCHTOWER_HTTP_API_TOKEN, in their headers. In this case, there is a port bind to the host machine, allowing to request localhost:8080 to reach Watchtower. The following `curl` command would trigger an image update:
```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer mytoken" localhost:8080/v1/update
```