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Yeah, I was looking for that info, because I don't trust any (especially new projects, that use AI).
How did you know, it was AI though? I am just curious
The OP says so in the comments, but also:
- two week old github account, project created 2 weeks ago
- initial commit is a large 1.0 release with everything committed at once
- this also happens for 2.0 where everything is commited in one commit
- the code and comment structure
Also the look of the UI I can see default Claude UI a mile away these days. Always the same colours, fonts, layouts, ect...
Sorry, but you have posted only 1 sentence about the project and not even a link to the project.
Additional with the
scripts—basically "em dash" which is really popular among llm generated texts, i get a bad feeling about it.
there has to be a better way than giving a slop coded project access to your docker daemon (im assuming?)
Great idea. Automatic updates (e.g. Watchtower) make me a little nervous.
Automatic updates for bug fixes (e.g. 1.0.0 to 1.0.1) are usually fine - it's major and minor updates that are scarier. I've never used Watchtower so I'm not sure if it has an option to only allow bugfixes.
That would depend on each project properly using semver, which is unlikely.
Personally, I just risk all the updates. It's not a huge deal to recover.
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking about when I started this project. I've noticed that many home labers are a bit skeptical with automatic updates. I'm glad you liked the idea
For me, it’s all about finding the right balance. I don’t want to have to manually update for every little bug fix version bump. Most software I find that major.minor version tags, if they exist, are a good compromise with daily auto updates unless it’s a really fast releasing software where just a major version makes sense. I usually just track releases on GitHub or wherever the source is hosted and bump as I need. That takes care of probably 90-95% of the containers I run.
Can you provide a link to your repo?
Yeah absolutely, my bad. First time publishing things here and I thought it was attached to the post. https://github.com/kumucode/vigil.git
Copying my comment from the homelab community:
I haven't tried it yet, but here's some initial thoughts:
Does it support multiple separate docker-compose.yml files? It would be useful if it could pull the list of containers directly from Docker rather than having to paste the docker-compose.
Does it pull changelogs so that the user can tell if a change is a breaking change that'll require extra work?
It would be useful to support Webauthn/FIDO2 2FA instead of just TOTP. TOTP is being slowly phased out due to its weaknesses (it's phishable). Similarly, it'd be useful to support single sign on using OIDC (OpenID Connect) as a lot of self-hosters use Authentik, Authelia, or Keycloak to have one login for all their self hosted services.
Hi Dan, I'm also copying the answer from homelab community.
Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated. For the first question, you click on add and past the image you’re currently using on your compose so the app creates a card with the current version. It’s a bit manual and tedious at first, but once it’s done, it’s easier to maintain. I think your idea is great to have the app just ¨find your docker-compose and do the work", but I don’t know how to do it yet. I wanted to test it manually first and see how it’d work out.
Vigil tells you if the newer version of the image is a major change or not. If you set it to update your compose automatically it will notify you and create a log, it something goes wrong you can easily revert it from the dashboard. Did I get your question right? Let me know if you meant something else.
Finally, security is an absolute must! I decided to use 2FA because most people won’t need to expose it to the web.They’ll probably use it on LAN. However, I do have adding OIDC (OpenID Connect) in mind, since many people indeed use Authentik, Authelia (these are the ones I’m familiar with). Since this is the early version, I didn’t want to make things too complex and also, I’m vibecoding it, so I’ll certainly need some experts out there to help me out to implement it correctly and safely.
If you have any question, just let me know and I’ll try my best to answer that.
Looks like a cool project. Starred.
I'm no tech expert either, so I'll keep an eye on how the community reacts to it, in terms of security.
Keep up the good work!
Make it support Podman next.
I'd love too if I knew how to do that. I still have lots of things to learn and do before putting my toes on these waters, but I'm glad you showed some interest even to mention an integration with other tools. Thanks for that.
My god. This timeline is so horrible.
This looks fantastic! Great work.
Thanks man, appreciate it!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.
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I've been looking for a dashboard for my containers, might test it out later
Sounds great, I've just released a small update after some feedback here. There's still a lot to be done, but let me know what you think once you test it.