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dockersh vs Watchtower: What are the differences?

dockersh: A shell which places users into individual docker containers. dockersh is designed to be used as a login shell on machines with multiple interactive users. When a user invokes dockersh, it will bring up a Docker container (if not already running), and then spawn a new interactive shell in the container's namespace; Watchtower: A process for automating Docker container base image updates. It is an application that will monitor your running Docker containers and watch for changes to the images that those containers were originally started from. If it detects that an image has changed, it will automatically restart the container using the new image.

dockersh and Watchtower belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

dockersh and Watchtower are both open source tools. It seems that Watchtower with 5.48K GitHub stars and 348 forks on GitHub has more adoption than dockersh with 1.3K GitHub stars and 83 GitHub forks.

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Pros of dockersh
Pros of Watchtower
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    Multiple users to ssh onto a single box
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    Isolation
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    Privacy
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    Secure
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    Automation Friendly
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    Open-source
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    Great community
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    Small footprint
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    Easy setup

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What is dockersh?

dockersh is designed to be used as a login shell on machines with multiple interactive users. When a user invokes dockersh, it will bring up a Docker container (if not already running), and then spawn a new interactive shell in the container's namespace.

What is Watchtower?

It is an application that will monitor your running Docker containers and watch for changes to the images that those containers were originally started from. If it detects that an image has changed, it will automatically restart the container using the new image.

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