Suggestion on how to make updates and less breaking changes to the infra setup

[ajfriesen]

Hey,

I recently started running immich and did not have many breaking changes yet. Actually none, but I started a couple of weeks ago.

But if the devs would like to see an approach how you can make this a bit easier I would like to point you to the mailcow update.sh.

Mailcow is a suite of containers for running your own docker-based mail server with 19 containers.
This update script is basically all you need in order to update your instance.

Just as an inspiration for how to tackle the always-changing docker components, etc.

https://docs.mailcow.email/maintenance/update/#automatic-update
https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/update.sh

[AngelaDMerkel]

This would be great. I currently use Immich as a novelty because the update process is such a massive pain in the ass, and I can't be bothered to intervene every single time it updates. This is expected, but as we are approaching stable, it would be good to see the introduction of some tool to facilitate