I’m trying to have a docker container, install some development-related tools in it, and use it to develop my software (using vscode’s remote development features). I’ll later be able to do docker start my-flutter-dev-container and then docker attach to go back to this.
In my case, I use Fedora, but Flutter can only be installed under Debian based distributions. So I’m using the ubuntu docker image, mapping a volume from my host to the container, so I can develop in the container.
Another motivation is to do my nodejs development in a container, so if I accidentally install a malicious library it does not have access to my whole system.
Here is the problem:
- If I run my container normally, files create will be owned by
root, so I’ll have problems managing them in the host. Need to constantly change owenrship. - If I run my container under a non-root user,
apt installdoes not work in the container. I cannot dosu -as I don’t have a password, andsudois not installed as well.
The command I use to run under non-root is:
docker run --name ubuntu-dev -u 1000 -v /home/ali/work:/home/ali/work:z -it ubuntu:latest
