Caveat: referencing images by tag about akri HOT 2 CLOSED

I'm not super sure what to do about this. I see the problem for sure.

It seems like no matter what we do, people will have to change their Helm install command to include a specific image (via tag or digest).

Perhaps we could make things more apparent by changing Makefile so that people developing (the official builds and helm chart defaults would remain unchanged) would end up with a timestamped label (or some equivalent uniqueness).

PREFIX ?= $(REGISTRY)/$(UNIQUE_ID)
VERSION=$(shell cat version.txt)
TIMESTAMP=$(shell date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")     # <-----
VERSION_LABEL=v$(VERSION)-$(TIMESTAMP)       # <-----
LABEL_PREFIX ?= $(VERSION_LABEL)

With this, we'd generate images with labels like v0.1.5-20210111_120445-amd64.

Then the development documentation could tell users to specify the tag/digest that aligns to what they want to test?

Does that sound like an approach that would improve things?

from akri.

I was thinking about this too recently.

I was going to propose more consistent versioning; I've been lazily reusing e.g. v0.0.44-amd64 incessantly

I think your approach is elegant.

from akri.