# Relationship between awx git tags and awx\_devel container versions?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/relationship-between-awx-git-tags-and-awx-devel-container-versions/38043>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [June 1, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/relationship-between-awx-git-tags-and-awx-devel-container-versions/38043 "2023-06-01T14:49:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![actionmystique](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/actionmystique/32/1678_2.png) [@actionmystique](https://forum.ansible.com/u/actionmystique)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/relationship-between-awx-git-tags-and-awx-devel-container-versions/38043/1 "2023-06-01T14:49:28Z")

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I’m trying to build our own docker container image with:

su - awx  
git clone -b 22.3.0 [https://github.com/ansible/awx.git](https://github.com/ansible/awx.git)  
cd awx  
git switch -c release\_4.4  
make docker-compose-build

I cannot grasp the rational behind awx\_devel container tag naming and relationship with awx git tags:

1. how do we know which awx\_devel container tag match/is compatible with awx git tag?
2. why is release\_4.2 released **after** release\_4.4? (cf. [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pkgs/container/awx\_devel/versions](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pkgs/container/awx_devel/versions))
3. Is there an official github API to get the latest awx\_devel tag? (comparable to [https://api.github.com/repos/](https://api.github.com/repos/)/releases/latest)

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/relationship-between-awx-git-tags-and-awx-devel-container-versions/38043/2 "2023-06-02T17:26:39Z")

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Hi!

to be clear, “awx\_devel” is the image to use for make docker-compose only (development)

the “awx” images (which include the official awx release tags like 22.3.0) are for the k8s deployments (production) and these are also hosted on [quay.io/ansible/awx](http://quay.io/ansible/awx).

if you want to build an awx\_devel image (for awx development purposes), you can checkout any git tag you wish, then run make docker-compose-build. This will produce a awx\_devel image associated with that git tag, and would be similar to the “awx” images at that tag.

We don’t publish awx\_devel images for each git tag, only the devel branch and some feature branches are published. This is because awx\_devel should only be used for development purposes, in which case developers should be using the latest image.

Hope that clears it up.

AWX Team