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Primary source of truth for the Docker "Official Images" program

30 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 2 stories, 28 comments · first 2014-11-05 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …just guessing, but there's a PR from 5min ago asking to add someone as a reviewer for PHP images: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/22544 Maybe the guy that has to click OK is asleep?
    comment by adlpz · 2026-10-21 · in PHP 8.2.35
  2. …final step but there's another manual process between that and updating the Docker Hub image tags: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/22541 It should definitely have a 'high impact' workflow that bypasses some of those…
    comment by geerlingguy · 2026-10-21 · in PHP 8.2.35
  3. It was merged a minute ago https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/22541
  4. …com/docker-library/php/commit/e3eaff845f7a9f7... Edit: Seems like GitHub has issues with merging PRs: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/22541
    comment by andrin · 2026-10-21 · in PHP 8.2.35
  5. ▲ 4
    A three year long unfruitful struggle to publish an official image on dockerhub
    story by henk53 · 2026-04-01 · 0 comments
  6. That's bad practice because it hides build steps from `docker inspect`. Per https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#clarity : > Try to make the Dockerfile easy to understand/read. It may be tempting, for the sake of brevity, to…
    comment by xenophonf · 2025-04-09 · in Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter
  7. …yet. It seems the overall topic if reproducibility is on the Docker team's to do list, though, see https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/160...
  8. …discussion about reproducible builds by the Docker people, where they provide some more details: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/160...
  9. …quite ready for consumption yet (they are only published once a month) but see the discussion on https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/160... for a promising step in this direction.
    comment by codethief · 2024-02-03 · in A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts
  10. …the Docker Official Images program can be summed up as “my PRs to docker-library/official-images” ( https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls/TimW... ) and the #docker-library IRC channel on Libera.Chat.
  11. …https://hub.docker.com/search?q=&type=image&image_filter=off... They are versioned and reviewed here: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images I don't expect them to go away. Disclosure: I maintain two of them (spiped, adminer).
  12. …IBM Semeru Runtimes. Essentially the same binaries, released under different licenses." Source: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/10666...
  13. …re: whether the official OpenWRT container should run /sbin/init in order to run procd, ubusd,: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/7975#... AFAIU, from a termux issue thread re: repackaging everything individually,…
  14. It doesn't block it, it requires recompiling musl. https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/10779... This is also a response to inclusion of this broken mess into official docker images, I think alpine putting their foot down…
  15. Monthly typically (and when important security updates are released): https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls?q=is...
    comment by TimWolla · 2020-10-14 · in Dockerfile Security Best Practices
  16. …severe limitations to AIX, and everything is just enough different to make things unpleasant. [0] https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#architectu...
    comment by lukevp · 2020-09-06 · in AIX or Linux on POWER (2010)
  17. Perhaps we’re talking past each other? When I go to https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/maste... It only is showing the newest version of node 8.16 listed in the manifest file. In other words, if I had an image based off…
    comment by javagram · 2019-07-09 · in Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices
  18. This is how the official images work. https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/tree/maste... Each image has a manifest with all the source repos, tags, what commit to pull from, what arches are supported, etc. As long as the tag…
    comment by cpuguy83 · 2019-07-09 · in Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices
  19. …image is not maintained by HAProxy itself. “Official” refers to being blessed by Docker. See: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#what-do-yo... 2. The vulnerability scan of Docker Hub is bogus:…
    comment by TimWolla · 2019-06-17 · in HAProxy 2.0
  20. https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/5516 The official image was also affected, too, it appears.
  21. …Labs version?) Edit: Ah, so here's the relevant GitHub issue for official Alpine Linux docker: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/5516 <=3.5 is no longer supported. Everything newer is patched.
  22. …/github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/commits/master The submission of it to the official images repo: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/4501
    comment by andyonthewings · 2018-06-27 · in Alpine Linux 3.8.0 released
  23. onbuild tags are deprecated: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/207... … although using an onbuild image here wouldn't hurt
  24. …[3]: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/official_repos/#how-do-i-... [4]: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls?utf8... [5]: https://github.com/docker-library/ruby/issues/117 [6]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/ref
  25. …a solid, well-supported foundation to base your own images on. 0. https://hub.docker.com/_/ruby/ 1. https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/tree/maste...
  26. It's in a PR here: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/2265
    comment by mmohebbi · 2016-10-18 · in Node v6.9.0 (LTS)
  27. ▲ 2
    Docker official images CVE tracker
    story by samber · 2016-05-16 · 0 comments
  28. …Docker image once. You can see the full process there [3]. [1] https://hub.docker.com/_/redis/ [2] https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls [3] https://github.com/docker-library/redis/pull/25
    comment by TimWolla · 2016-05-06 · in Redis 3.2.0 is out
  29. Primary curator of the program here ( https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/319cb... ). "Moving" is a bit of a strong word. It would be much more accurate to say "providing alternatives". For example, the "golang" image…
  30. …as they take that stuff quite seriously. As far as I know the entire library is fully patched. [1] https://github.com/docker-library/official-images