telepod

Telepod adds Telegram notifications feature to podman auto-update.

Telepod looks up for running containers and checks if an image has changed since last run. If the image has been updated Telepod sends a telegram message.

Environment variables

• TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID
• TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN

Use with cron

*/5 *  * * *   TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=-1003920707150 TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=7917343448:906-MIX0YZRc6cHETY5KEmrDBA5fHW4Ye26 /usr/local/bin/telepod

Use with systemd

File ~/.config/systemd/user/telepod.timer:

[Unit]
Description=Telepod image update notifications

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*:0/5
Unit=telepod.target

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

File ~/.config/systemd/user/telepod.service:

[Unit]
Description=Telepod image update notifications
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
Environment="TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=-1003920707150"
Environment="TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=7917343448:906-MIX0YZRc6cHETY5KEmrDBA5fHW4Ye26"
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/telepod

User

Telepod tracks container versions of the current user. It could be started as root or as regular user.

Versions file

Telepod tracks image versions in json-file:

• /var/lib/telepod/db.json if started as root
• $XDG_STATE_HOME/telepod/db.json if started as regular user

Repository mirrors

This project has Github and Gitlab mirrors, to contribute please use Codeberg.