November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
7h 10m
English
Our next steps, apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade, are a bit controversial in the current Docker world, but I think they are a good addition, and I'll explain why. On a regular deb package-based Linux distribution (that is, Debian, Ubuntu, and so on), these two commands ensure that your system is fully up to date with the currently released packages for your version of the system. This means that any package that isn't the newest version will be upgraded and any obsolete packages will be replaced with newer ones. Since the general maxim of Docker is that the containers are more or less disposable, updating your container this way seems to be somewhat frowned upon, but it's not without its faults. ...
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