Automatic updates

[ThallesP]

Summary

Pangolin should do automatic updates or at least security ones by default

Motivation

One of my biggest frustrations with Pangolin right now is the update process. Pangolin is software that I want to install and forget about without worrying about RSC vulnerabilities and similar issues.

Also, the update process is kind of a pain to deal with, and as a lazy person, I always postpone it.

Proposed Solution

Pangolin should perform automatic updates by default.

If the update process requires downtime, the user should be able to set a schedule for updates directly through the user interface.

A way to approach this is by focusing on creating a CLI script command that performs the update process (simply by following the current documentation). Here's an example of how Coolify implements this approach with great success.

Alternatives Considered

as an MVP, I wouldn't mind a script that I can copy and paste into a cron job on my system instead of the current upgrading documentation.

Additional Context

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[sandmaennchen5]

I did it on my end with a script for running it that also always makes a backup.
Also detects whether it's Pangolin Community or EE, I just haven't tested the PostgreSQL versions.

• Automatically detects available updates for Containers and Traefik plugins
• Supports both automatic and manual update selection
• Detects Community and Enterprise Pangolin releases automatically
• Creates timestamped backups before modifying configuration files
• Optionally creates a compressed backup of the entire ./config directory before updating containers
• Automatically removes outdated backups while always keeping at least the newest configurable number of backups

The following tools must be installed:
Bash, curl, jq, yq, Docker Compose

update.sh

[sandmaennchen5]

Since it has now become larger, also because I have often set up at RAW Ports, then I have forgotten part of it and got annoyed that it worked nicely, my script has become nice and large, from backup, update, diagnosis ☺️ I once created a GitHub repo that you can also contribute to.

https://github.com/sandmaennchen5/scripts/tree/main/pangolin