One of the ways to do it is to drive this through your CI/CD systems. Once your parent image is built, have something that scans your git repos for images using that parent. If found, you'd then send a pull request to bump to new versions of the image. The pull request, if all tests pass, would be merged and you'd have a new child image based on updated parent. An example of a tool that takes this approach can be found here: https://engineering.salesforce.com/open-sourcing-dockerfile-image-update-6400121c1a75 .

如果你不控制你的父映像，就像你依赖于官方ubuntu映像的情况一样，你可以写一些工具来检测父映像标记或校验和(不是一回事，标记是可变的)的变化，并相应地调用子映像构建。

我们使用一个脚本来检查正在运行的容器是否以最新映像启动。我们还使用upstart init脚本来启动docker映像。

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    set -e
    BASE_IMAGE="registry"
    REGISTRY="registry.hub.docker.com"
    IMAGE="$REGISTRY/$BASE_IMAGE"
    CID=$(docker ps | grep $IMAGE | awk '{print $1}')
    docker pull $IMAGE

    for im in $CID
    do
        LATEST=`docker inspect --format "{{.Id}}" $IMAGE`
        RUNNING=`docker inspect --format "{{.Image}}" $im`
        NAME=`docker inspect --format '{{.Name}}' $im | sed "s/\///g"`
        echo "Latest:" $LATEST
        echo "Running:" $RUNNING
        if [ "$RUNNING" != "$LATEST" ];then
            echo "upgrading $NAME"
            stop docker-$NAME
            docker rm -f $NAME
            start docker-$NAME
        else
            echo "$NAME up to date"
        fi
    done

init看起来像这样

docker run -t -i --name $NAME $im /bin/bash

Docker映像的依赖管理是一个真正的问题。我所在的团队开发了一个名为MicroBadger的工具，通过监视容器图像和检查元数据来帮助解决这个问题。它的功能之一是让你设置一个通知网络钩子，当你感兴趣的图像(例如基本图像)发生变化时，它会被调用。

一个简单而伟大的解决方案是牧羊人

下面是一种自动更新docker容器的最简单方法

通过$ crontab -e放置作业:

0 * * * * sh ~/.docker/cron.sh

创建目录~/。Docker与文件cron.sh:

#!/bin/sh
if grep -Fqe "Image is up to date" << EOF
`docker pull ubuntu:latest`
EOF
then
    echo "no update, just do cleaning"
    docker system prune --force
else
    echo "newest exist, recompose!"
    cd /path/to/your/compose/file
    docker-compose down --volumes
    docker-compose up -d
fi

You can use Watchtower to watch for updates to the image a container is instantiated from and automatically pull the update and restart the container using the updated image. However, that doesn't solve the problem of rebuilding your own custom images when there's a change to the upstream image it's based on. You could view this as a two-part problem: (1) knowing when an upstream image has been updated, and (2) doing the actual image rebuild. (1) can be solved fairly easily, but (2) depends a lot on your local build environment/practices, so it's probably much harder to create a generalized solution for that.

If you're able to use Docker Hub's automated builds, the whole problem can be solved relatively cleanly using the repository links feature, which lets you trigger a rebuild automatically when a linked repository (probably an upstream one) is updated. You can also configure a webhook to notify you when an automated build occurs. If you want an email or SMS notification, you could connect the webhook to IFTTT Maker. I found the IFTTT user interface to be kind of confusing, but you would configure the Docker webhook to post to https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/`docker_xyz_image_built`/with/key/`your_key`.

如果你需要在本地构建，你至少可以通过在Docker Hub中创建一个连接到你感兴趣的repo的虚拟repo来解决上游映像更新时收到通知的问题。虚拟回购的唯一目的是在重新构建时触发一个webhook(这意味着它的一个链接回购被更新)。如果你能收到这个webhook，你甚至可以用它来触发你这边的重建。