#1999·watchtower

Container does not get updated

Author: realiesCreated Jul 14, 2024Updated Nov 25, 2025

LabelsType: BugPriority: MediumStatus: Available

Describe the bug

When the image of a docker compose service is updated, it gets pulled, but the docker container does not get recreated or stopped. I'm not sure if it's related to compose.

Steps to reproduce

yaml

version: "3"
services:
  watchtower:
    container_name: watchtower
    image: containrrr/watchtower
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP=true
      - WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE=0 20 5 * * *
      - WATCHTOWER_REMOVE_VOLUMES=true
      - WATCHTOWER_DISABLE_CONTAINERS=wake-on-lan-service
      - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS=shoutrrr
      - WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_URL=x
      - WATCHTOWER_DEBUG=true
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

Expected behavior

The container stops and gets recreated with the latest image

Screenshots

No response

Environment

rpi4
arm64
Docker version 27.0.3, build 7d4bcd8

Your logs

watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:03Z" level=debug msg="Parsing image ref" host=index.docker.io image=zoeyvid/npmplus normalized=docker.io/zoeyvid/npmplus tag=latest
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:03Z" level=debug msg="Doing a HEAD request to fetch a digest" url="https://index.docker.io/v2/zoeyvid/npmplus/manifests/latest"
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:03Z" level=debug msg="Found a remote digest to compare with" remote="sha256:661f67996f2293717f8f82dfc7b546494d63bea5689c30aa90aa1bd71b4abeb4"
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:03Z" level=debug msg=Comparing local="sha256:adb7e1f2d47724ceb27e494a1f2db3d21401b08311ccba2393b2b9e79017fdfa" remote="sha256:661f67996f2293717f8f82dfc7b546494d63bea5689c30aa90aa1bd71b4abeb4"
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:03Z" level=debug msg="Digests did not match, doing a pull."
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:03Z" level=debug msg="Pulling image" container=/npmplus image="zoeyvid/npmplus:latest"
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:04Z" level=info msg="Found new zoeyvid/npmplus:latest image (43ff4b4c4210)"
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:04Z" level=debug msg="Trying to load authentication credentials." container=/dpaste image="darrenofficial/dpaste:latest"
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:04Z" level=debug msg="No credentials for index.docker.io found" config_file=/config.json
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:04Z" level=debug msg="Got image name: darrenofficial/dpaste:latest"
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:04Z" level=debug msg="Checking if pull is needed" container=/dpaste image="darrenofficial/dpaste:latest"
...
watchtower  | time="2024-07-14T05:26:10Z" level=info msg="Session done" Failed=0 Scanned=7 Updated=1 notify=no

Additional context

No response

Source: containrrr/watchtower

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