exclude containers from update checks

[Pierric82]

Hi,

Loving dockhand so far. One tiny thing I'd like to see is the ability to exclude some containers from the update checks. I do want the majority of my homelab containers to be checked for updates, but there are some exceptions, where I want to stick to a particular image (assuming the risk!). I see 2 broad ways I'd want this to happen:

• tagging specific containers (equivalent of watchtower's use of a label; and this could be a label too)
• having a general rule in the updates settings that says "don't check stopped containers": I have a few containers created a long time ago that I may or may not restart one day. I'll only want to update them if and when that day comes, but for the time being I want them silently parked.

Hope that makes sense!

[Bauanga]

I also think the idea of being able to control automatic updates more precisely is very good. However, I would not say that it is necessary to exclude containers from the update check. I see no reason why I shouldn’t be shown which containers are no longer up to date. However, I would find it great to be able to exclude certain containers from automatic updates.

[Pierric82]

The motivation in my case is that I like to receive a notification of containers for which there is a possible update. But for those containers that are indefinitely paused (or in some previous situations, for which I choose to ignore updates for a time, because of issues in current versions), getting notifications adds noise to the notifications I actually want to see. That is, I might get notified for 6 updates, and I have to check the list to see that there is one that is actually relevant - or maybe none!

[pven]

I have the same issue. Almost all of my containers are allowed to auto-update, except for two. As far as I see it is currently not possible to excuded the from the auto-update (that is scheduled via environment). And I don't want to change this setting per container.

[Valdorama]

Same scenario, I'd like to replace Watchtower with the automatic update feature in Dockhand. I'd like to enable auto-update at the environment level, and then specifically exclude a handful of containers for which I want manual control. I have 30ish containers so don't want to have to set them up individually.