github-releases-bot
codeberg.org
This repository contains code to scan for new releases of configurable github repositories and publish new releases to different Mastodon accounts.

I’m selfhosting several services, mostly based on docker containers. Many of these are managed on Github and publish releases there. What annoys me is that I regularly miss updates.

I’m also quite active on Mastodon so I thought it would be handy to have a bot automatically scanning for new github releases and posting a new toot for every new release.

The bot can be configured to scan multiple different github repositories and publish to different mastodon accounts.

I have set up accounts for:

https://mastodon.social/@navidrome_releases
https://mastodon.social/@vaultwarden_releases
https://mastodon.social/@dockerpihole_releases
https://mastodon.social/@tempo_releases
https://mastodon.social/@unifidocker_releases

You can use the notification feature of Mastodon to get a notification, whenever a new post is published. Just follow an account and hit the little bell icon on its profile page.

Here’s the code, if someone is interested in that:

https://codeberg.org/ryan_harg/github-releases-bot

Is this something that you people find useful? Which other services would you like to see covered in that way?

  • EskueroEnglish
    8•5 months ago

    I do it that way. Enable email notifications for new tagged releases, something arrives, check changelog, everything fine?

    docker-compose pull; docker-compose down; docker-compose up -d

    And we are done

    • @Link@rentadrunk.orgEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      You don’t need to run docker-compose down.

      docker-compose pull; docker-compose up -d is enough

      • EskueroEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        I guess that’s fair for single service composes but I don’t really trust composes with multiple services to gracefully handle only recreating one of the containers

        • @Link@rentadrunk.orgEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          If only one container has been updated then when you run docker compose up -d it will only recreate that container, unless it is a dependency of another container (like a database) in which case it will restart all containers that depend on it as well.

    • @danAEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      FYI, docker-compose is the legacy version that was deprecated a few years ago and no longer receives updates. docker compose (with a space instead of a hyphen) is what you should be using these days.