Fix: Migrate Watchtower to active fork to resolve Docker API client error#609
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Fix: Migrate Watchtower to active fork to resolve Docker API client error#609Benjaminlooi wants to merge 1 commit intofactoriotools:masterfrom
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Description
This PR replaces the archived
containrrr/watchtowerimage references in the repository's documentation and example compose files with the actively maintained fork:nicholas-fedor/watchtower.Why is this needed?
The original Watchtower project is archived and uses Docker API client v1.25. Recent updates to the Docker Engine daemon (v27+) have completely dropped support for API versions older than 1.26. This causes the stack to fail out-of-the-box on modern systems with the following error:
Error response from daemon: client version 1.25 is too oldSwitching to
nicholas-fedor/watchtowerresolves this issue and ensures the auto-update functionality remains stable for users on current Docker engines.Upstream context from the archived repo:
Related Issue
Resolves #608
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