yup.

Are you talking about a docker setup? if so, yes, as long as you update your bind mount to the new location. If manual install, I would think that you’d have to either leave it in place or find what references that location and update it as well.

Ya, I definitely could do that!

All of my other services are pinned to the “latest” tag. or “latest-alpine”, so I don’t actually have them pinning to a specific release. If I specific a release tag, like what I had to do with lemmy’s 0.17.3, it will only stay on the tag until I manually update it.

Watchtower is granted access over your docker admin socket, so yes, it can administrate other containers at will. It will use whatever schedule you want and update images to latest for any containers that aren’t running the latest image. You can also configure it to email or otherwise notify out when it makes changes so that it is that much easier to have a log of what was changed and when, should you need to revert.

Themes would be my start, but that would require the instance owners to add them once created.

Its not that doing updates for lemmy is hard. its that I have a few dozen services running concurrently. I use Watchtower to keep them up to date. I don’t want to have to watch each and every service manually. Today alone, I see in my discord log from Watchtower that calibre-web, plex, photoprism, monica, and shlink got updated to the latest version.

Updated the 3 items you suggested. Thanks for the tip about updating images!

For pinning, that means that I have to keep a watchful eye over my image sources. I agree that having each release tagged is good to be able to easily go back without having to do the digest. But since the only way to run the latest image is via the tag 0.17.3, my watchtower has no way to upgrade automatically one 0.18.x comes out. That is a long term maintenance nightmare, imo.