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Discussion on: Top 8 Docker Best Practices for using Docker in Production ✅

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Andrei Dascalu

Just an observation.
While latest tag is definitely a bad practice, that doesn't make fixed versions a "best practice". It can be a decent practice and a good rule of thumb but consider this:
The vast majority of docker image offerings for software that follows semver also versions their docker images accordingly. This means there will be rolling tags for major versions that will contain updated minor versions and patches as well as rolling tags for minor versions that contain updated patch versions only.
It can be a good idea to allow your build to at least follow the newest minor versions rolling tag since patches bring goodies like security updates in a non-breaking way.