Does not install the latest version of Docker engine

[tdoan2010]

Currently, the latest version of the Docker engine is 23.0.1. But when I install Docker using this Ansible role, I only get 20.10.8.

When I manually follow the instruction about how to install Docker on Ubuntu, I got the latest version.

Did I miss any configuration of this role? I suppose it always install the latest version of Docker, but it was not the case.

[pagdot]

Seems like that is a limitation how package managers handle the install command and that ansibles package module doesn't upgrade packages, just makes sure any version of them is installed. See [tasks/main.yml#L19-L34) for reference. According to the package module documentations state parameter at least with some package managers it is supported to set the state to latest to get the latest version of a package.

This ansible role would support this by setting the variable docker_packages_state to latest instead of the default present. This could be added to the documentation of the role.

[pagdot]

Update: Seems like it worked and upgraded my docker packages. Thinking about a few minutes more I'm not sure if the better way to handle this would be to implement package upgrades in general (e.g. using ansible) to make sure that all packages are up to date.

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