Kentaro Hayashi

Policy: Drop alpine for newer Fluentd release (v1.19) Action: * Keep alpine for v1.16 (LTS), v1.18 series * Thus v1.16 image will be supported until Dec 2025. (because fluent-package v5...

Revised proposal # Policy: Drop alpine for newer Fluentd release (v1.19) ## Action: * Keep alpine for v1.16 (LTS), v1.18 series * Thus v1.16 image will be supported until Dec...

Published this idea on Fluentd website blog: [Drop Alpine and switch default to Debian for Fluentd docker image](https://www.fluentd.org/blog/fluentd-drop-alpine-docker-image)

Tried minor improvement before switching to Debian completely. https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docker-image/pull/427

Backport to v1.16 branch. https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docker-image/pull/428

Introduce version specific latest tag e.g. v1.19 (latest v1.19 series, same as v1.19-debian) just a short alias e.g. v.1.19.x (latest v1.19.x series, same as v1.19.x-debian) just a short alias e.g....

Now, the following tags were introduced for v1.18 series. * v1.18.0-debian * v1.18-debian * latest Thus you can follow specific versions without internal version bumps.

For v1.16 series, also the following tags were introduced. * v1.16-debian * v1.16.7-debian * v1.16.7-debian-ARCH (e.g. v1.16.7-debian-amd64)

Now v1.19.0 has been deployed, alpine image was dropped and switched to default image to debian.

NOTE: it is important to notify breaking change in v1.19, so create new issue and pin it with the following content. https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docker-image/issues/424#issuecomment-3604728325