this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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I run a docker container and it has some outdated bits which I forked and updated. The changes need testing and no one else seems to wanna do it. For some odd reason I'm nervous about pointing the image at my repo and building from that. Am I Being Stupid? It's not like if it fails I can't just recreate the image. None of the databases are gonna be affected. So what am I anxious about?

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[–] xcjs@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If it's peace of mind that you're after, you can never go wrong with a backup.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 3 days ago
[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 2 points 4 days ago

Setup a test environment, with all the bits you need and point your updated image at it.

For example I build an image that needs redis, so I have a test compose that starts redis and then my image