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chore: drop Watchtower entirely - #122

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  • Redundant now that every deploy already runs docker compose pull && up -d for every app in a target's apps mapping (idempotent since feat: push-based deploy - target host needs only Docker + Compose #115) — a separate polling container added nothing except another thing needing Docker socket access on every host.
  • Also directly fixes a real gap: traefik's Watchtower label + the label-based skip in deploy/deploy.py meant it would never actually get docker compose up run for it by the automated path on a target that doesn't also run watchtower itself — which hawkeye doesn't (flagged in Normalize the hawkeye/rybbit deploy: configure prerequisites and get the first real deployment running #106).
  • Removes com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true from apps/traefik/docker-compose.yml and apps/semaphore/docker-compose.yml, deletes apps/watchtower/ entirely.
  • Simplifies deploy/deploy.py: no more run_apps/all_apps split — every app in a target's apps mapping gets docker compose pull && docker compose up -d --remove-orphans uniformly, no label-based special-casing.
  • Adds RETIRED.md (modeled on dupmachine/flightdeck-config/RETIRED.md) to track apps dropped from the catalog going forward, starting with this one.

Closes #118.

Test plan

  • deploy/ unit tests (48, down from 50 — removed the two Watchtower-specific cases, DeployToHostTest now asserts every app gets the compose command)
  • Matrix trace via load-yaml-matrix.py against targets/hawkeye.yml — unaffected, confirms no lingering reference to the removed app
  • pre-commit run --all-files clean

Redundant now that every deploy already runs docker compose pull && up -d
for every app in a target's apps mapping (idempotent since #115) - a
separate polling container added nothing except another thing needing
Docker socket access on every host, and its label-based skip logic meant
traefik would never actually get started by the automated path on a
target that doesn't also run watchtower itself (the hawkeye gap flagged
in #106).

Removes the label from traefik/semaphore, deletes apps/watchtower/, and
simplifies deploy.py: no more run_apps/all_apps split, every app in a
target's apps mapping gets docker compose pull/up uniformly.

Closes #118.
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ineedjet merged commit d795cab into main Aug 21, 2026
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ineedjet deleted the chore/drop-watchtower branch August 21, 2026 18:29
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Drop Watchtower entirely - idempotent deploy already makes it redundant

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