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Auto Pull Containers With Portainer?

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Hey friends!

I'm running a modest home lab and I've been using portainer to manage containers. I know they offer the business edition free for 3 nodes but now I'm at 5 (Synology, pi, and some mini pcs).

With AI being what it is, I'm enjoying building small apps that solve specific problems for me. I'm deploying them as docker apps. My issue is that my AI agent is pushing commits to forgejo, which then builds a new container for my app, but portainer doesn't allow for pulling an updated container, so I need to manually login and do that. It seems silly and solveable. Has anyone run into this and found a good solution?

My containers are not hosted publicly anywhere. They are built on the VM where they run.

I think the answers here will be one of:

A) There is a way to have portainer-ce pull images automatically.

B) Downsize and switch to business edition with 3 free nodes.

C) switch to something else?

D) you tell me?

I don't really want to lose portainer because it's convenient, but I'm also not a business, just a hobbyist. Prefer to keep portainer, open to alternatives though.

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