Provide Docker image as non root

[curquiza]

Discussed in #1756

^{Originally posted by igaul October 1, 2021}
Hi,
I'd like to request the official docker image run with a non root user, so the final image of Dockerfile would be something like this (what I am using)

`# Run
FROM alpine:3.14

ARG USER=meiliuser
ENV HOME /home/$USER
ENV MEILI_HTTP_ADDR 0.0.0.0:7700

download runtime deps as root and create $USER

RUN apk add -q --no-cache libgcc tini curl
&& adduser -D $USER
WORKDIR $HOME
USER $USER

copy file as $USER to $HOME

COPY --from=compiler /meilisearch/target/release/meilisearch .

EXPOSE 7700/tcp

CMD ["tini", "--","./meilisearch"]`

If interested, I would be happy to pr. Have a good weekend!

[xvilo]

As the change has been reverted (in #2032), can we re-open this issue? We would like to run Meilisearch on our Kubernetes cluster. Unfortunately we don't allow running images as a root user. Manually setting the securityContext to overrides this results in a Error: Permission denied (os error 13) error.

This feature would be highly appreciated

Edit, new issue was created over at #2051

[K2ouMais]

Hello everyone, we are having exatcly the same issue in kubernetes.

We dont allow any pod to run as root and so I wanted to ask if there is any solution for this?

Thanks in advance.

[rtmzshw]

did any one find a solution? same problem here

[xvilo]

Hi folks, please refer to #2051 instead, and see if you're able to create a pull request. Otherwise you'll have to wait or allow root for that specific container