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How do you keep docker/podman containers up-to-date?
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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You read breaking changes before you update things, that's how.
Are they documented separately from other changes?
It depends on the project. If the project doesn't make an effort to highlight them I would consider using a different one.
But any decent OSS will make a good change log for their updates that you can read.
I've just been updating my containers every week or so and if something breaks I'll try and fix it. It would definitely be preferable to "fix" in advance, but with enough containers getting updated, checking/reading every change becomes a fair amount of work. Most of the time nothing breaks.
Downvotes are cool but if this is a bad way of doing things just tell me.
What is driving you to need to update so often?
Nothing. Is this too frequent?
Well, there's always the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mantra. There's a few reasons I tend to update. Because there's a feature I want or need, to fix a big that affects me, or because a software frequently updates with breaking changes and keeping up with reading change logs is the best way to deal with that. The last option is usually because if I keep up with it I don't have to read and fix multiple months of breaking changes.