Updating with deployment tools does not work

[Solaris17]

System: VM
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1
Management: Portainer 2.17.1

Issue:

Even when the stack is configured to follow main and the box is checked to allow auto updates at interval portainer is failing to detect the new versions being published. Manually syncing does not fix the issue though the following snippet is provided:

Redeploy from git repository
This stack was deployed from the git repository https://github.com/rpgeeganage/ots-share-app.git .

Update docker-compose.bundle.yml in git and pull from here to update the stack.

It looks like some mechanism is missing for "docker-compose.bundle.yml" that may trigger software like portainer to pull the entire repo. Perhaps a version?

Keep up the fantastic work.

[rpgeeganage]

@Solaris17 ,
I think you can set a tag name.
e.g: refs/tags/2.2.0
Instead of refs/heads/main.

[Solaris17]

hm, I guess that would really depend on how you want people to handle updates. If they want to feature lock that would make sense; if they want to be continuously in feature parity though that would be problematic imo.

[rpgeeganage]

@Solaris17 ,
sorry for the late reply. Do you have any project which I can refer to so I can modify this based on your suggestion.

[Solaris17]

No worries @rpgeeganage I was referring to portainers ability to do this during stack deployment. I don't have an example; just a use case. That being that if you wanted your containers to continuously track they would update themselves. Before this option existed, and outside of portainer, this was generally done with watchtower.

Here is portainers take on how this option functions. I grabbed the section anchor, but the rest might be worth the read.

https://docs.portainer.io/user/docker/stacks/add#automatic-updates