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How to upgrade the version of yarn on node:latest docker image?

The official docker image for node is: https://hub.docker.com/_/node. This comes with yarn pre-installed at v1.x. I want to upgrade yarn to v2. However, I can’t tell how yarn was installed on this image. It’s presumably not via npm because if I do npm list, yarn does not show up in the list. I don’t know of another way to install yarn. I thought maybe it was via the package manager for linuxkit, which I believe is the distribution used by the node docker image. However I looked at the package-manager for linuxkit – as I understand it they just use git clone and there are a list of packages available in /pkg in the github repository. However, yarn isn’t one of those.

Some steps towards an answer, maybe:

  1. How is the installed version of yarn on node:latest docker image installed? [Maybe that will inform me as to how I can upgrade it]
  2. How can I upgrade yarn on a LinuxKit docker image?
  3. How can I see the Dockerfile for the base image? [I.e. node:latest – is there a Dockerfile for that which tells us how the image was generated? If so that might tell me how yarn was installed.]
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  2. 0

    According to Dockerfile it is installed via tarbar in both in alpine and debian versions:

      && curl -fsSLO --compressed "https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/$YARN_VERSION/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz" 
  && curl -fsSLO --compressed "https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/$YARN_VERSION/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz.asc" 
  && gpg --batch --verify yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz.asc yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz 
  && mkdir -p /opt 
  && tar -xzf yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz -C /opt/ 
  && ln -s /opt/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION/bin/yarn /usr/local/bin/yarn 
  && ln -s /opt/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION/bin/yarnpkg /usr/local/bin/yarnpkg 
  && rm yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz.asc yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz

    You can use the similar commands to download and use ln to create symlink for your version like above.

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  3. 0

    The Best Practices Guide recommends for (simple) local installs

    FROM node:6

ENV YARN_VERSION 1.16.0

RUN yarn policies set-version $YARN_VERSION

    in your Dockerfile. This guide is worth to be read anyway 😉

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  4. 0

    If you can do something on runtime,
    simply use below command to install the Yarn version you want:

    yarn set version stable

    On 2022-11-23, stable will install Yarn 3.3.0.

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