also keep the original markdown docs :P~

docs/remote-hosts.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+By default, watchtower is set-up to monitor the local Docker daemon (the same daemon running the watchtower container itself). However, it is possible to configure watchtower to monitor a remote Docker endpoint. When starting the watchtower container you can specify a remote Docker endpoint with either the `--host` flag or the `DOCKER_HOST` environment variable:
+
+```bash
+docker run -d \
+  --name watchtower \
+  containrrr/watchtower --host "tcp://10.0.1.2:2375"
+```
+
+or
+
+```bash
+docker run -d \
+  --name watchtower \
+  -e DOCKER_HOST="tcp://10.0.1.2:2375" \
+  containrrr/watchtower
+```
+
+Note in both of the examples above that it is unnecessary to mount the _/var/run/docker.sock_ into the watchtower container.