I am currently switching from docker compose to kubernetes. Along with that, I am changing from using the :latest tag on everything to explicit versions.

Now, it’s a lot of work to check all the GitHub pages for the releases and updating.

Is there some kind of dashboard that ideally would show me (per app) the version I am running vs. the current version from GitHub? (With a link to the release notes, while we are at it…).

Or is my workflow wrong to begin with? (Haven’t looked too deep into something like argocd, maybe that’s the answer?)

  • suicidaleggroll@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Just FYI - you’re going to spend far, FAR more time and effort reading release notes and manually upgrading containers than you will letting them run :latest and auto-update and fixing the occasional thing when it breaks. Like, it’s not even remotely close.

    Pinning major versions for certain containers that need specific versions makes sense, or containers that regularly have breaking changes that require you to take steps to upgrade, or absolute mission-critical services that can’t handle a little downtime with a failed update a couple times a decade, but for everything else it’s a waste of time.