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Switch Off Automatic Updates

This page provides instructions to switch off the scheduled automatic updates for your Appsmith instance.

Docker​

Follow the below steps for your Appsmith installation on Docker to switch off automatic updates:

  1. Go to the root directory of the Appsmith installation and run:

    docker-compose down

  2. Open the docker-compose.yml file and comment out the below code block:

    #auto_update:
    #  image: containrrr/watchtower
    #  volumes:
    #    - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    #  # Update check interval in seconds.
    #  command: --schedule "0 0 * ? * *" --label-enable --cleanup
    #  restart: unless-stopped
    #  depends_on:
    #    - appsmith
    #  environment:
    #    - WATCHTOWER_LIFECYCLE_HOOKS=true

  3. Save the changes and restart the Appsmith instance with:

docker-compose up -d --force-recreate
  1. Verify that the automatic update is turned off with:
docker-compose ps

Kubernetes​

Follow the steps below to turn off auto updates:

  • If you are on the Community Edition on Kubernetes, update the configuration as shown below:

    a. Go to the Appsmith installation directory, and edit values.yaml, and set enabled to false for autoupdate attribute:

    autoupdate:
      ## @param autoupdate.enabled - Enable config autoupdate
      ##
      enabled: false
      ## @param autoupdate.scheduler - Schedule cron job to check & update Helm image
      ##
      scheduler: "0 * * * *"

    b. Save the changes and update the configuration with:

      helm upgrade --values values.yaml appsmith appsmith/appsmith

  • If you are on the Commercial Edition on Kubernetes, update the configuration as shown below:

    a. Go to the Appsmith installation directory, and edit values.yaml, and set enabled to false for autoupdate attribute:

    autoupdate:
      ## @param autoupdate.enabled - Enable config autoupdate
      ##
      enabled: false

    b. Save the changes and update the configuration with:

    helm upgrade --values values.yaml appsmith appsmith-ee/appsmith

Troubleshooting​

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