First off, huge thanks to the growing and awesome community who not only make DockMon better by finding bugs, coming up with awesome new features but also contribute code! You guys rock!!
Excited to release v2.2.0-beta1!! This is a huge release with several big changes:
Agent!
- Support for Agents. This is probably the most requested feature to date. With the Agent you don't need to open the Docker socket on remote hosts to manage them. Instead, just install the Agent, either as a container or as a system service which means no exposed ports and better security. To do this, go to Hosts and click on "Add Host". DockMon now defaults to the Agent as the recommended option and it will show you installation instructions in the UI.
- Migrations from current remote hosts is supported as well so you don't have to remove an existing remote host first, just install the Agent and DockMon will handle the migration
- Easy Agent updates. The Agent support self-updates which makes running the latest version much easier. The container version updates just like any other container whereas the system service version updates via the Host information page.
New features
- Improved charts on the host and container drawer/modals with axis descriptions, dynamic Y axis and hover tooltip (#86) (thanks @marvinvr)
- Mobile Optimizations (#86) (thanks @marvinvr)
- Ability to add a "Update Now" link/button using a new {ACTION_URL} variable so you can update a container directly from a notification. See #16 for more details
- Ignore events from containers using wildcards (#34)
- Option to ignore container updates completely, new configuration in Settings -> Container Updates (#85)
Other changes
- Completely rewritten deployment code. This used to be convoluted Python code that was just too complex and meant each capability in Docker Compose has to be replicated in code. Now DockMon is using a the Go Compose SDK for all deployments instead which means deployments will be a lot more reliable.
- A similar refactor was done to the update system which is now also written in Go and the code is shared between DockMon and the Agent.
- Replace -backup- container suffix with -dockmon-backup (#76) (thanks @guilhermenovais)
- The alert system didn't allow you to use compose tags as an option for sending alerts (#88)
- A stopped container will now be stopped immediately after an update is successful (#90)
This is a beta release and it's a big one and there might be unknown issues and bugs. Please report them here or in the #beta-discussions channel in Discord