Does Discourse container use unattended-upgrades?

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fyi, I fixed the broken unattended-upgrades install (which doesn’t actually run without systemd on the Discourse docker container) by triggering it to run via a cron job.

I created the following yaml template file in my /var/discourse/templates/ dir to create the necessary cron job (note that it also has a command to fix a bug with cron shipped in the Debian-based Discourse docker image):

cat << EOF > /var/discourse/templates/unattended-upgrades.template.yml
run:
  - file:
     path: /etc/cron.d/unattended-upgrades
     contents: |+
        ################################################################################
        # File:    /etc/cron.d/unattended-upgrades
        # Version: 0.2
        # Purpose: run unattended-upgrades in lieu of systemd. For more info see
        #           * https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Discourse
        #           * https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-container-use-unattended-upgrades/136296/3
        # Author:  Michael Altfield <michael@opensourceecology.org>
        # Created: 2020-03-23
        # Updated: 2020-04-23
        ################################################################################
        20 04 * * * root /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/unattended-upgrades --debug
        

  - exec: /bin/echo -e "\n" >> /etc/cron.d/unattended-upgrades
  # fix the Docker cron bug https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43323754/cannot-make-remove-an-entry-for-the-specified-session-cron
  - exec: /bin/sed --in-place=.\`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"\` 's%^\([^#]*\)\(session\s\+required\s\+pam_loginuid\.so\)$%\1#\2%' /etc/pam.d/cron
EOF

To enable the above template file, you have to add it to your list of templates in your app’s yaml file. For example,

[root@osestaging1 discourse]# head -n20 /var/discourse/containers/app.yml
## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container template
##
## After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild
## /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app
##
## BE *VERY* CAREFUL WHEN EDITING!
## YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT!
## visit http://www.yamllint.com/ to validate this file as needed

templates:
  - "templates/unattended-upgrades.template.yml"
  - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
  - "templates/redis.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.template.yml"
#  - "templates/web.socketed.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.modsecurity.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
  #- "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
  #- "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"
[root@osestaging1 discourse]#