Intro

This is a docker image to run a container that listens for filechanges inside the defined folder (bound as volume) and restarts a defined container automatically each time. It was built to make the app "Monitoror" reflect changes, whenever the config.json it reads changes, because monitoror itself requires to restart the container manually on each change. However, docker-filewatcher can be used universally.

Setup

In general, the run command looks like this:

docker run -d \
    -e TARGET_CONTAINER=<name-of-container-to-watch> \
    --name=<name-of-this-container> \
    --pull=always \
    -v "<some-local-dir>:/watchdir" \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    ghcr.io/doganm95/docker-filewatcher:latest

with the following placeholders:

<name-of-container-to-watch>: The exact name of the container to take care of
<name-of-this-container>: Any name this container should have
<some-local-dir>: The directory to watch for changes in, checks all files inside

Example

One example use case is setting this up for "Monitoror", so this container restarts the app, whenever the config.json changes

docker run -d \
    --pull=always \
    --name=monitoror-restarter \
    -e TARGET_CONTAINER=monitoror \
    -v "/home/Monitoror/config:/watchdir" \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    ghcr.io/doganm95/docker-filewatcher:latest

DoganM95/Docker-Filewatcher

Intro

Setup

Example