The latest articles on DEV Community by Renan Zulian (@renanzulian). https://dev.to/renanzulian https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F403523%2Fdd86fee2-226d-4047-9e21-ab4001692edb.jpeg https://dev.to/renanzulian en Renan Zulian Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:12:57 +0000 https://dev.to/renanzulian/why-you-should-stop-to-use-latest-tag-on-docker-b3j https://dev.to/renanzulian/why-you-should-stop-to-use-latest-tag-on-docker-b3j <p>The tag is some of the core features of the docker that many people don't use correctly. Through the tags, we can select what the version we want to download and to use in our project. So if you aren't worried about it probably someday you can have some problems.</p> <p>I confess that my machine has a lot of images with the 'latest' tags yet. Sometimes we don't want to specify what the version we need, right? A few weeks ago I cloned a small project that I worked in the past and I was using the latest version of Postgres. But that day the version wasn't the same I have used when I have created the project, then I had to guess what version I have used.</p> <p><strong>Not specifying the version that you want isn't a good habit.</strong></p> <p>The 'latest' version is never the same. It is only a generic term that isn't so useful in the practice¹. Probably you will never say to someone that your project needs the latest version of some software (in a formal conversation). You should say to him that you have used the <strong>X</strong> version of the <strong>Z</strong> software.</p> <p>It is normal for a beginner developer don't care about the versions of the resource that the software he is coding depends. But if you already are an experienced developer, you need to start to care about it now.</p> <p>¹ Raphael Habereder give us a good example of a context that it is very useful. Check his comment below.</p> docker beginners