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b112 • today at 2:18 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

If you mean docker official images, it's just the "community" maintaining it, eg "some dudes". By no means should you consider it a mechanism to get timely security updates, I've seen horrible lag on that before.

Most of docker is like this. Images provided by volunteers, and not related to the project. Using docker images you don't maintain yourself, and at least don't upgrade yourself, is not the best recipe for security.

(It's pretty trivial to build your own)


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TimWolla • today at 7:41 PM

> If you mean docker official images, it's just the "community" maintaining it, eg "some dudes".

This is false. The Docker Official Images team (i.e. the folks with write access to the docker-library/* organization) are Docker employees.

andix • today at 2:24 PM

I wasn't aware of that. So I guess it's generally better to just use plain debian images and just install the required packages with apt.

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dmtroyer • today at 2:32 PM

welp, I guess I should have done my research into what "docker official images" actually means.