Do we want a stable tag?

[martinkennelly]

Now that #348 is merged..

What would you like to be added?

Add stable-${major version}-${arch} where arch is amd64, arm64 and ppc64le.

How?

We need to change deployments imagePullPolicy to make this work. I don't know if that's appealing..
We can extract major version number from docker meta to create the image tag.

        name: Docker meta
        id: docker_meta
        uses: crazy-max/ghaction-docker-meta@v1
        with:
          images: name/app
          tag-semver: |         
            {{major}}

What is the use case for this feature / enhancement?

Allow consumers to consume latest major version updates without updating their yamls. May aid automated testing infra.

Images we produce today

Tag	Arch	Description
latest	x86	Latest commit
latest-amd64	x86	Latest commit
${GitHub SHA}	x86	Git commit e.g "sha256:540af56cbd92b2dfdaea5bac3c44a6f46a277f0dbed000a0993d116fc377f332"
${GitHub tag}	x86	GitHub Release tag e.g "v1.0"
latest-arm64	arm	Latest commit
${GitHub tag}-arm64	arm	GitHub Release tag e.g "v1.0-arm64"
latest-ppc64le	power	Latest commit
${GitHub tag}-ppc64le	power	GitHub Release tag e.g "v1.0-ppc64le"

[adrianchiris]

This was discussed in K8s NPWG network & resource mgmt meeting on 08.10.2021. this enhancement proposal is approved.

documentation should be added as well, explaining the nature of the stable tag.
while it might be relevant for dev deployments and CI/testing, it will not be suitable for production.

while updating documentation it would also be great to document the images we are creating as depicted in this issue.

[zshi-redhat]

@martinkennelly @adrianchiris do we know anyone who is working on this proposal?

[martinkennelly]

No.
@ipatrykx anyone on your side?

[ipatrykx]

@martinkennelly Sorry, I was out of office for over 2 weeks.

After checking with @Eoghan1232 it seems that we don't have anyone working on this.