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Move rootless notes to a variant stub
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yosifkit authored Feb 27, 2025
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In order to make use of this functionality from a "client" container, at least the `client` subdirectory of the `$DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR` directory needs to be shared (as illustrated in the following examples).

To disable this image behavior, simply override the container command or entrypoint to run `dockerd` directly (`... docker:dind dockerd ...` or `... --entrypoint dockerd docker:dind ...`).
To disable this image behavior, simply override the container command or entrypoint to run `dockerd` directly (`... %%IMAGE%%:dind dockerd ...` or `... --entrypoint dockerd %%IMAGE%%:dind ...`).

## Start a daemon instance

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Some of these will not be supported based on the settings on the host's `dockerd`, such as `--ulimit nofile=-1`, giving errors that look like `error setting rlimit type 7: operation not permitted`, and some may inherit sane values from the host `dockerd` instance or may not apply for your usage of Docker-in-Docker (for example, you likely want to set `--oom-score-adj` to a value that's higher than `dockerd` on the host so that your Docker-in-Docker instance is killed before the host Docker instance is).

## Rootless

For more information about using the experimental "rootless" image variants, see [docker-library/docker#174](https://github.com/docker-library/docker/pull/174).

**Note:** just like the regular `dind` images, `--privileged` is required for Docker-in-Docker to function properly ([docker-library/docker#151](https://github.com/docker-library/docker/issues/151#issuecomment-483185972) & [docker-library/docker#281](https://github.com/docker-library/docker/issues/281#issuecomment-744766015)). For `19.03.x` rootless images, an argument of `--experimental` is required for `dockerd` ([docker/docker#40759](https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/40759)).

Basic example usage:

```console
$ docker run -d --name some-docker --privileged docker:dind-rootless
$ docker logs --tail=3 some-docker # to verify the daemon has finished generating TLS certificates and is listening successfully
time="xxx" level=info msg="Daemon has completed initialization"
time="xxx" level=info msg="API listen on /run/user/1000/docker.sock"
time="xxx" level=info msg="API listen on [::]:2376"
$ docker exec -it some-docker docker-entrypoint.sh sh # using "docker-entrypoint.sh" which auto-sets "DOCKER_HOST" appropriately
/ $ docker info --format '{{ json .SecurityOptions }}'
["name=seccomp,profile=default","name=rootless"]
```

## Where to Store Data

Important note: There are several ways to store data used by applications that run in Docker containers. We encourage users of the `%%REPO%%` images to familiarize themselves with the options available, including:
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## `%%IMAGE%%:<version>-rootless`

For more information about using the experimental "rootless" image variants, see [docker-library/docker#174](https://github.com/docker-library/docker/pull/174).

**Note:** just like the regular `dind` images, `--privileged` is required for Docker-in-Docker to function properly ([docker-library/docker#151](https://github.com/docker-library/docker/issues/151#issuecomment-483185972) & [docker-library/docker#281](https://github.com/docker-library/docker/issues/281#issuecomment-744766015)), which is a security issue that needs to be treated appropriately.

Basic example usage:

```console
$ docker run -d --name some-docker --privileged %%IMAGE%%:dind-rootless
$ docker logs --tail=3 some-docker # to verify the daemon has finished generating TLS certificates and is listening successfully
time="xxx" level=info msg="Daemon has completed initialization"
time="xxx" level=info msg="API listen on /run/user/1000/docker.sock"
time="xxx" level=info msg="API listen on [::]:2376"
$ docker exec -it some-docker docker-entrypoint.sh sh # using "docker-entrypoint.sh" which auto-sets "DOCKER_HOST" appropriately
/ $ docker info --format '{{ json .SecurityOptions }}'
["name=seccomp,profile=default","name=rootless"]
```

To run with a different UID/GID than the one baked into the image, modify `/etc/passwd`, `/etc/group`, and filesystem permissions (especially for the `rootless` user's home directory) as appropriate; for example:

```dockerfile
FROM %%IMAGE%%:dind-rootless
USER root
RUN set -eux; \
sed -i -e 's/^rootless:1000:1000:/rootless:1234:5678:/' /etc/passwd; \
sed -i -e 's/^rootless:1000:/:5678:/' /etc/group; \
chown -R rootless ~rootless
USER rootless
```

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