The official Docker container for NodeJS supports the tags "current" and "latest". What is the difference between those two? I have noticed that there is only a single "latest" but "current" comes with the usual suffixes (-slim, -alpine).
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From what I can tell, the difference is this:
The tag latest is kind of a Docker convention and should exist for every image in order to ease the use of the newest version. However, there is always only a single latest tag but the NodeJS image comes with various variants (alpine, debian, etc.) which obviously each all have a newest version. Hence, they decided to introduce the current tags which denote the latest image version of each of these different variants.
Also, AFAIK, latest, current and current-buster are the same image.
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