【原创】运维基础之Docker（7）关于docker latest tag

Docker images have a tag named latest which doesn’t work as you expect.
Latest is just a tag with a special name.
“Latest” simply means “the last build/tag that ran without a specific tag/version specified”.
Just version your tags. Every time.

docker image有一个tag叫做latest，latest通过最近一次没有指定版本的build或tag来生成

下面实验来看：

$ docker tag imagename localhost:5000/imagename
$ docker push localhost:5000/imagename

这样可以在repository上创建一个版本为latest的imagename，下一次更新操作如下：

1）先停止使用旧的image的container并删除，然后删除旧的image

$ docker stop $container_id
$ docker rm $container_id
$ docker rmi localhost:5000/imagename

2）同上

$ docker tag imagename localhost:5000/imagename
$ docker push localhost:5000/imagename

这种方式不会保留历史版本；

更好的做法是：

1）版本1

$ docker tag imagename localhost:5000/imagename:1
$ docker push localhost:5000/imagename:1
$ docker tag imagename localhost:5000/imagename
$ docker push localhost:5000/imagename

这时latest=1

2）版本2

$ docker tag imagename localhost:5000/imagename:2
$ docker push localhost:5000/imagename:2

$ docker stop $container_id
$ docker rm $container_id
$ docker rmi localhost:5000/imagename
$ docker tag imagename localhost:5000/imagename
$ docker push localhost:5000/imagename

这时latest=2

参考：
https://medium.com/@mccode/the-misunderstood-docker-tag-latest-af3babfd6375
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39352186/update-a-docker-image-in-registry