Support docker containers with non-root users and host user uid not equal to 1000 #191

dboreham · 2023-02-25T06:05:49Z

dboreham commented

2023-02-25 06:05:49 +00:00

Needed because Docker is badly designed and has no (usable) uid mapping abstraction.
This adopts the hacky solution developed for VSCode devcontainers where the "container user" is re-numbered to the host user's uid/gid at container build time, by means of buildnig a "per-uid" container.

Initial use is to allow building npm packages on Linux servers.

Almost nobody notices this nonsense on Docker because "it works on macos".

Needed because Docker is badly designed and has no (usable) uid mapping abstraction. This adopts the hacky solution developed for VSCode devcontainers where the "container user" is re-numbered to the host user's uid/gid at container build time, by means of buildnig a "per-uid" container. Initial use is to allow building npm packages on Linux servers. Almost nobody notices this nonsense on Docker because "it works on macos".

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Reference: cerc-io/stack-orchestrator#191