-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 619
New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
What's the difference between shared and simple tags? #316
Comments
I've taken a first pass at explaining this difference in a generic way over in docker-library/faq#2. 👍 |
@tianon So if I run an image with a shared tag... all images from the list are downloaded and one of those is automatically chosen? I guess not. Also, the first link from both categories points to the same file. So does the second. UPD I probably see.
Which are identified by simple tags. Simple tags are like main tags. Shared tags group images together under common name. But what's the idea? How can I use shared tags? I don't think
|
The point is that you can |
See also "manifest lists" in Docker (although we also already use manifest lists for multiarchitecture support, and your Docker client is smart enough to usually pull the correct image from that list). |
Mongo's README has two categories of tags? What's the difference?
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: