Disable Automatic Updates

In Appsmith, the automatic updates are turned off by default. You may choose to schedule the automatic updates. This page provides steps to disable the scheduled automatic updates for your self-hosted instance.

Docker
Kubernetes

Follow the below steps to switch off automatic updates:

Go to the root directory of the Appsmith installation and run:
```
docker-compose down
```

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

Save the changes and restart the Appsmith instance with:
```
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate
```
Verify that the automatic update is turned off with:
```
docker-compose ps
```

Follow the steps below to turn off auto updates:

Steps for Commercial Edition:

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
```

Save the changes and update the configuration with:

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

Steps for Community Edition:

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 * * * *"

Save the changes and update the configuration with:

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

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