What's the most recent non-preview Community Edition Container?

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Rob Tweed · May 3, 2024

It's not clear to me, when using the InterSystems Container Repository, which version is the best / most recent non-preview Community Edition version to use.

I see lots of 2023.2.x versions, a single 2023.3 and 2024.1 version, but also a latest-cd and latest-em (with no explanation as to what cd and em mean).

I assume the trick is to use one of the latest-xx ones? If so, which?

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any explanatory information anywhere about the nomenclature conventions used.

Many thanks

Product version: IRIS 2023.3

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2024-05-03T07:59:21-04:00

Enrico Parisi · May 3, 2024

Did you checked this post:

Upcoming InterSystems Container Changes

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score 1 · Answer 2 · 2024-05-03T09:42:01-04:00

Thanks Enrico! OK so I guess it's latest-em I should always be using.

It would be useful to have this information in the actual Container Repository to save having to search around for it.

score 0 · Answer 3 · 2024-05-03T08:05:15-04:00

You can check this documentation page about releases (and cd and em meaning)

https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20241/csp/docbook/Doc.View.cls?KEY=PAG...

score 0 · Answer 4 · 2024-12-16T07:41:58-05:00

Revisiting this after a while - it appears that things have changed again. Am I correct that there are no longer any architecture-neutral containers and you have to specifically pull either an ARM or AMD/Intel version? eg:

FROM containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community-arm64:2024.3

Also latest-em appears to not exist any more as an option, so you can't simply request the latest stable version?

Thanks for help/advice, Rob

score 0 · Answer 5 · 2024-12-16T11:33:37-05:00

A further follow-up on this. If Architecture-specific containers are now to be the norm, could you at least use a nomenclature that allows the following?

FROM containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community-${BUILDARCH}:2024.3

This currently works if you build on ARM, but apparently the AMD64 version is:

iris-community:2024.3

rather than

iris-community-amd64:2024.3

which makes such conditionalisation in a Dockerfile impossible.