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Kubernetes for Developers

You're reading from  Kubernetes for Developers

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788834759
Pages 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joseph Heck Joseph Heck
Profile icon Joseph Heck

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Setting Up Kubernetes for Development 2. Packaging Your Code to Run in Kubernetes 3. Interacting with Your Code in Kubernetes 4. Declarative Infrastructure 5. Pod and Container Lifecycles 6. Background Processing in Kubernetes 7. Monitoring and Metrics 8. Logging and Tracing 9. Integration Testing 10. Troubleshooting Common Problems and Next Steps 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Tagging your container images


Using the :latest tag on Docker images is incredibly convenient, but it can easily lead to confusion as to what exactly is running. If you do use :latest, then it is a very good idea to also tell Kubernetes to always attempt to pull a new image when loading the container. We will see how to set this in Chapter 4, Declarative Infrastructure, when we talk about declaratively defining our applications.

An alternative is to make explicit tags, building with a tag, and also using docker tag to tag the image as latest for the convenience factor, but maintaining specific tags within the declarations that you check in to source control. For this example, the tag chosen is 0.2.0, using semantic versioning to represent a value to use with the container, and matched to a git tag as well.

The steps that were used while making this example were:

git tag 0.2.0
docker build -t quay.io/kubernetes-for-developers/nodejs:0.2.0 .
git push origin master --tags
docker push quay.io/kubernetes...
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