phizaz/fixuid repository overview

⁠Fixuid Ubuntu 16.04 Base Image

⁠Rationale

It has been a pain to run everything in docker images with root user.

All the files created during the process will be owned by root ! It is just not natural.

For me and people like me, who want to run docker images as an alternative for a normal command line execution, this is really pain.

So, we want to run commands in docker containers in non-root users.

But, since under the same kernel, users are linked by their UID shared across the system. User 1000 in the host system, outside the container, is the same person as the one 1000 inside. This reduces the portability of the docker image. How can we guarantee that wherever one runs this image will have the same UID as the one built this image ?

Fixuid seems to have fixed this problem by dynamically modify UID inside the container to match the runner's supplied --user argument in `docker run

Please refer to https://github.com/boxboat/fixuid⁠ for more in details.

⁠Warning

fixuid should only be used in development Docker containers. DO NOT INCLUDE in a production container image

⁠What's in this Dockerfile

• apt-fast (https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast⁠)
• fixuid (https://github.com/boxboat/fixuid⁠)

⁠Build

docker build -t phizaz/fixuid:ubuntu-16.04 .