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Ask HN: How do you handle Docker image security updates?

1 pointsby konhaover 4 years ago
A lot of software today is distributed in the form of docker images. Often these images are based on minimal base images (like alpine, Ubuntu etc). When there is a security update to these base images, the software vendor should pull in these updates and release a new version of their image as well. But most do not. Instead they wait for a new release of their own software to release a new image.<p>So my question is: How do you mitigate this?<p>Do you just run the potentially outdated images?<p>Do you manually recreate images based on the software vendor’s dockerfile (so you can create new images when the base image updates)?<p>Any other ideas I‘m not thinking of?<p>Curious to hear from your experience.

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yuppie_scumover 4 years ago
Add apt update etc to your in-house Dockerfiles