Run Docker with Custom Options

[907th]

I broke my brain trying to understand why my custom image is running under root instead of ubuntu user. The issue. Finally I found that Drone uses root for all images except forbradrydzewski's ones. 😲

I think Drone should allow to specify a custom user for build in .drone.yml

[0xcaff]

All images will use root soon,

[907th]

@caffinatedmonkey Ok, but having the ability to change the user is a big deal

[jeffutter]

+1 Some build related things (like bundler) don't like to be run as root. I would like to be able to specify the user when using my own docker image as a base for building.

[sarahkevinking]

+1 I tried to customize the bradrydzewski images. It was baffling that cloning the original image would cause the build to fail. Nice find.

[floatdrop]

@bradrydzewski I want to implement achieve something like this - because we need to run build under teamcity (we have some gpg work to do). May be add option to .drone.yml (like user under image section)?

[bradrydzewski]

@floatdrop we're probably going to expose more Docker customization in the future (#362) so it would be great to have something like this:

image: python
docker:
  user: teamcity
  net: host
  privileged: true

Thoughts about implementing as described above? At some point it could make sense to move image under the docker section, especially if we end up supporting vagrant, but I'd like to defer that to a later release:

docker:
  image: python
  user: teamcity
  net: host
  privileged: true

[floatdrop]

@bradrydzewski will try, but first attempt to change manually root to teamcity in code failed with this output:

Not found

This will be not as straightforward as I thought.

[bradrydzewski]

@floatdrop a quick workaround could be adduser and then su in your build script.

[floatdrop]

@bradrydzewski thanks for the tip.

I have preconfigured image with teamcity user in it - so adduser is not necessary in my case. What should be mentioned - sudo -H -u teamcity is the command, that works for me (it will not change current directory, but will set $HOME to the right place - where gpg keys are). Also I added chmod -R 777 .. to grant access to teamcity user and debuild command (which build package in the parent directory).

Hope it will help some one, while docker options is under developing.

[codekoala]

@bradrydzewski has there been any work on the docker customization options? If not, I might take a stab at it.

[bradrydzewski]

@codekoala yes some progress. I have a local branch that adds the docker section to the yaml as discussed above along with privileged mode. Should have something available this weekend. Would love some feedback if you're able to test

[codekoala]

Absolutely!
On Oct 2, 2014 11:28 PM, "Brad Rydzewski" notifications@github.com wrote:

@codekoala https://github.com/codekoala yes some progress. I have a
local branch that adds the docker section to the yaml as discussed above
along with privileged mode. Should have something available this weekend.
Would love some feedback if you're able to test

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[bradrydzewski]

@floatdrop just submitted #617 to include --net

[bradrydzewski]

we've added the docker section to the yaml and many customization options. We are altering the Drone build process to use the default USER assigned to the image. We are tracking this change in #749 so I'm going to close this issue.

[907th]

@bradrydzewski Thanks! Is new docker section documented anywhere? Can not find docs for it :(

[nardeas]

Still cannot find this anywhere in documentation. Any help here?

[one000mph]

Does this still exist in 0.8? It seems not...