6 alternatives to watchtower

containrrr/watchtower — A process for automating Docker container base image updates. (24,605 stars, Apache-2.0, infra, database, analytics).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 53 licence-cleared components from containrrr/watchtower itself.

The alternatives in detail

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• kimdre/doco-cd
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  score 6.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,747 stars · 330 components · search them
• moby/moby
  The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
  score 7.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 72,197 stars · 1,253 components · search them · alternatives
• pranshuparmar/witr
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  score 7.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 22,789 stars · 139 components · search them · alternatives
• docker/compose
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  score 7.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 38,487 stars · 212 components · search them · alternatives
• wagoodman/dive
  A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
  score 3.1/10 · MIT permissive · 54,662 stars · 78 components · search them · alternatives

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