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  • I guess it depends on the containers that are being run. I have 175 containers on my systems, and between them I get somewhere around 20 updates a day. It’s simply not possible for me to read through all of those release notes and fully understand the implications of every update before implementing them.

    So instead I’ve streamlined my update process to the point that any container with an available update gets a button on an OliveTin page, and clicking that button pulls the update and restarts the container. With that in place I don’t need fully autonomous updates, I can still kick them off manually without much effort, which lets me avoid updating certain “problematic” containers until after I’ve read the release notes while still blindly updating the rest of them. Versions all get logged as well, so if something does go wrong with an update (which does happen from time to time, though it’s fairly rare) I can easily roll back to the previous image and then wait for a fix before updating again.







  • self-signed won’t get rid of any warnings, it will just replace “warning this site is insecure” with “warning this site uses a certificate that can’t be validated”, no real improvement. What you need is a cert signed by an actual certificate authority. Two routes for that:

    1. Create your own CA. This is free, but a PITA since it means you have to add this CA to every single device you want to be able to access your services. Phones, laptops, desktops, etc.

    2. Buy a real domain, and then use it to generate real certs. You have to pay for this option ($10-20/year, so not a lot), but it gets you proper certs that will work on any device. Then you need to set up a reverse proxy (nginx proxy manager was mentioned in another post, that will work), configure it to generate a wildcard cert for your domain using DNS-01 challenge, and then apply that cert to all of your subdomains. Here’s a pretty decent video that walks you through the process: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TBGOJA27m_0