Containers

The Watchtower project has been officially archived and is no longer under active maintenance. The GitHub repository was switched to read-only status on December 17, 2025, marking the end of development for one of the most widely used Docker container auto-update tools.

It has long been used to automatically monitor running containers and pull updated images when new versions are published, making it a common component in many self-hosted and small-scale Docker deployments.

The announcement was made by one of Watchtower’s core maintainers in the project’s GitHub Discussions section, stating that they no longer actively use Docker and have lost both the time and interest required to continue maintaining Watchtower. As a result, they decided to archive the repository rather than leave it in a partially maintained state.

LXD, a modern system container and virtual machine manager developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has just released LXD 6.6, marking the sixth feature launch in the 6.x series.

One of the headline additions is support for instance placement groups, giving administrators more control over how virtual machines and containers are distributed across cluster members. Kubernetes users receive a new LXD Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, streamlining volume provisioning and integrating more cleanly with Kubernetes storage workflows.

The Open Container Initiative unveiled today the OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 update for this standard around operating system process and application containers. This runtime specification continues to evolve for outlining the configuration, execution environment, and lifecycle of a container. Notable with the v1.3 revision is introducing official FreeBSD support.

I recently tried out Portainer and have been really impressed. I run a few archiveteam containers and can easily see them in the UI along with the ports they have exposed.

If you'd like a web-ui for docker: consider giving it a try.