Get Notified When Updates Are Available With DIUN

DIUN (Docker Image Update Notifier) is a great tool for staying up to date with the latest image via notifications. This is good for security, convenience, and making sure you have the latest features.
In this video I show you how to deploy it and configure notifications.
DIUN Docs:
crazymax.dev/diun/
Docker Compose Files for DIUN:
github.com/JamesTurland/JimsG...
Recommended Hardware: github.com/JamesTurland/JimsG...
Discord: / discord
Twitter: / jimsgarage_
Reddit: / jims-garage
GitHub: github.com/JamesTurland/JimsG...
00:00 - What is DIUN
01:15 - Walkthrough of Docker Compose
06:14 - Logs in Portainer
06:44 - Testing Notifications
07:54 - Outro

[@paulo.valverde]

Thanks for all of your tutorials. You always have extremely useful information to share.

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback

[@Vaillant44]

Thank you James, I will use it for sure. Need to setup gotify first.

[@Jims-Garage]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sbme1147]

Thanks for the video. Looks like it works with Podman & as a Service under Debian. Saved for later as a bookmark.

[@Jims-Garage]

You're welcome

[@Mr.Jean-Paul]

Hi Jim, I just use Watchtower on 4 different servers with around 40 containers. Never had a problem with an update, so far so good. Beside Watchtower, I also installed Dozzle on each server which gives me a pretty nice overview of the container log files, in case there would be a problem. Anyway, thanks for your interesting videos, always appreciated!

[@Jims-Garage]

That's good to hear, I'll take a look. I used to use watchtowerr but a PiHole update broke my network and took ages to diagnose...

[@Mr.Jean-Paul]

@@Jims-Garage Concerning Pihole, I have 2 instances running together with Unbound, on 2 different servers in an Ubuntu VM, with Gravity-Sync allowing synchronizing between the 2 of them, and with VRRP-Protocol installed which allows for 1 server to be master and the other one slave. That scenario allows me also to have only 1 virtual IP-adress for both of them, which for my router was absolutely necessary as I can only enter 1 DNS-Server. Sort of HA, works fine so far. A cronjob does the updates on both instances, which are backuped every day, so that an malfunctioning update can easily be reverted.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@Mr.Jean-Paul nice, that's a cool setup. I run in Kubernetes and a backup LXC

[@Metzlmane]

Thanks for another great video and sharing of your knowledge! Watching your videos for a long time now. This time I'm a bit surprised that you promote discord, which is a privacy nightmare.. but I can see that this might be interesting for some people. Keep up the great work

[@Jims-Garage]

I included it because loads of people request Discord, plus I gave a self hosted alternative.

[@fLuke88888]

Nice as always, but how come you show container logs and do container shell in portainer, and not in vscode where you did compose?

[@Jims-Garage]

No real reason, I've used both. I quite like the ease and simplicity of Portainer.

[@nicolasotero6424]

It would be very good to make a video showing how to avoid exposing the docker socket with cetusguard, haproxy, etc

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks , I have something planned for that

[@GundamExia88]

Great video! does DIUN work with Dockge? I have 6 hosts each has a Dockge running I like DIUN to keep track of containers.

[@Jims-Garage]

I don't know, I would think so but I haven't tested.

[@warlordattack]

One problem with watchtower, i have gluetun and many other containers using gluetun network, so whent gluetyun is updated i need to recreate all dependant containers, and there is no way to set a dependency tree with watchtower

[@Jims-Garage]

That's why I use DIUN in my recent video. It notifies about updates without doing anything. Auto updates are risky business!

[@Dirizabl]

I guess DIUN cannot check for new versions of containers running on other machines, similar like Watchtower? Meaning, I would need to set it up in a way that is 1 machine - 1 DIUN instance?

[@Jims-Garage]

I don't believe so but multiple machines it supports swarm and Kubernetes

[@Julian-lv6ph]

Hi Jim, totally off topic but can you make a video on how to setup NordVPN on opnsense for selected devices?

[@Jims-Garage]

Check out my OPNSense video part 2, already done.

[@Julian-lv6ph]

@@Jims-Garage I love you

[@Julian-lv6ph]

It actually only shows how to setup it for the whole network which I have done but want to isolate vpn to certain devices only.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@Julian-lv6ph Suggest you put those devices on a separate VLAN and use the VPN as the gateway.

[@thbe51]

I have problems to get notify to Gotify to work. Notify to mail is OK. Got this from the console: "diun: error: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = invalid character 'F' looking for beginning of value" Any ideas??

[@thbe51]

I found out what it was. Runing Gotify and Diun in docker on the same host with traefik calls for trouble with ip-addresses 🙂🙂

[@Jims-Garage]

Good to know. Thanks for replying.