Automatically Updating Home Assistant Container (and other Docker Containers)

How to keep your Home Assistant Container, Linux Operating System and other Docker Containers up to date automatically when you don't have access to the Home Assistant Supervisor.

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[mitchelwb]

This playlist is top notch. I originally planned to run the OS, but at the last minute found this docker series and I'm so glad I did. It's so clean!

[Distroreport]

You rock, this video series didn’t only let me finally understand how docker works. It made converting from Home Assistant OS to docker a breeze! Thanks a lot!!! It freed up my server to run other (dockerized) services.

[martinchinery]

Great series of videos and I learnt a great deal from them. Seriously considering moving from HASSOS to this method. I would love to see some other videos on installing docker add-ons that are commonly used such as Zigbee2mqtt/Mosquitto, ZwaveJS, and Node Red as examples.
Many thanks for all that you provide.

[CFodder]

Great video, would love to see a good Mosquitto docker compose setup guide in this series as well as pi-hole.

[Danandrea]

Great video! I've just a suggestion. Running docker prune commands without conditions can be dangerous. If, for any reason, docker-compose up -d will not work, you will delete all your volumes and images! Just something like this would help

if ! docker info > /dev/null 2>&1; then
docker image prune -af
docker volume prune -f
fi

Checking individual containers one by one would be even better

Also (I'll stop, I promise), if you are not doing it already, for handling the auto-start for docker containers, you could use a simple
sudo systemctl enable docker
You only need to run it once, and it will be executed as a service at every boot.

[Foodgeek]

I'm using Portainer and their stacks feature, so I don't have the docker-compose.YAML file in the file system to run the update.

Instead, I am using watchtower, which works quite nicely :)

Otherwise, you have tons of good information in your videos. Keep it up :)

[DominikZalewski]

Best YT channel on home automation period! Small suggestion to the update script is to add "set -o pipefail" after shebang which basically will stop the rest of command if any of them fail. It's general bash script good practice ;) I have very similar update script running once a week but its written in python and has pushover notification at the end to tell me if it was successful or not :) Great series of videos on running HA in docker. Love it!

[JoshInTheWild]

I’d just like to take a moment and thank you for your awesome video series and blog posts with Home Assistant and Docker. Incredibly helpful, and well put together. I was just thinking earlier today that I wanted to automate my updates and backups- sure enough you have walkthroughs on both! Subscribed!

[grahammccann]

Hi Alan, Thank you for taking the time to make this series of videos

[drbyte]

Great video again !
I would like to see how to setup Node Red and use it with Homeassistant.

[danwarner]

Alan thanks so much. Your video & blog made it possible to understand using the Docker container option for running HA. This has been a project that I have wanted to installing on a low power ( I-3) for some time. Thanks & keep up the excellent video work and blog. Dan

[ReyRamos]

Love your videos, been following through and now have an Ubuntu Desktop running all of my containers with Homeassistant among other things. I have a question, how do you monitor your host? Do you use something like Checkmk? If you already have a video for this then please send me the link. Otherwise this would be a great topic for a video. Keep up the good work!

[msib]

Great video series would really love to see one on setting up pihole in a container because of the ports mainly...

[alankinrade]

Great set of videos. My smart home was controlled by Habitat/HomeKit/Homebridge and my set-up was getting very untidy. I've been following along over the last few months and have abut 50% changed over to Home Assistant now and loving it. I not 100% there with the Docker, would love to see video on how to set-up Pi-Hole in Docker. I did try it but ran into a few issues. 
PS. Aqura cubes on order from China, can't wait to try them out :-)

[merevge]

It would be nice if you could show us how to set up some things like Grafana, link Node-Red correctly to HA and Alexa or build a Heimdall web UI for general overview. And thanks for the nice video.

[spyrosnicolaou]

Amazon series! great job!
can I ask you if please if can you make a video that you explain how to install and configure pi-hole
thank you

[matthewbarton-pye]

Was reviewing this today and found that docker-compose has been deprecated in favour of ‘docker compose’ - just remove the -

[Nabeelco]

I believe it's "Hash-bang" as in "hash symbol, bang symbol". Hash, also know as the pound or the number sign, and Bang, also known as an exclamation point or the "not" symbol.

[gjlp]

Great video as usual! I use Watchtower as an update solution for all my containers

[Hupihovi]

Thank you! You are the best :) Really enjoy your content!