diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/docker.md b/docs/sources/installation/docker.md index 2a6af952a2b..6bf25ad8232 100644 --- a/docs/sources/installation/docker.md +++ b/docs/sources/installation/docker.md @@ -51,10 +51,13 @@ $ docker run \ grafana/grafana:5.1.0 ``` -## Running of the master branch +## Running the master branch -For every successful commit we publish a Grafana container to [`grafana/grafana`](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana/tags/) and [`grafana/grafana-dev`](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana-dev/tags/). In `grafana/grafana` container we will always overwrite the `master` tag with the latest version. In `grafana/grafana-dev` we will include -the git commit in the tag. If you run Grafana master in production we **strongly** recommend that you use the later since different machines might run different version of grafana if they pull the master tag at different times. +For every successful build of the master branch we update the `grafana/grafana:master` tag and create a new tag `grafana/grafana-dev:master-` with the hash of the git commit that was built. This means you can always get the latest version of Grafana. + +When running Grafana master in production we **strongly** recommend that you use the `grafana/grafana-dev:master-` tag as that will guarantee that you use a specific version of Grafana instead of whatever was the most recent commit at the time. + +For a list of available tags, check out [grafana/grafana](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana/tags/) and [grafana/grafana-dev](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana-dev/tags/). ## Installing Plugins for Grafana