Why is there no "latest" tag in lighninglabs/lnd image

[martini1992]

Would be useful to have a "latest" tag on the lightninglabs/lnd image which would track the latest git tagged release and be the (semi-)stable version of the "daily-testing-only" tag.
I've opened this as a discussion rather than an issue because you are probably already aware of this and have not implemented it for good reason.

[guggero]

Because updating lnd should be a conscious decision (operators should read the release notes to see what database migrations are applied and what config changes might be required), I don't think a tag that always points to the latest released version is a good idea. Otherwise things might change unexpectedly from one day to the other.
You could argue that the tag should only be used on testnet or regtest. But if there's a tag, people will go ahead and use it on mainnet as well.

Another argument against a static name tag that's updated regularly is that it does not work with repositories that disallow pushing the same tag twice with different hashes. That's why in addition to the daily-testing-only tag we also added a daily-testing-<date> tag that we use for our testing environments.