Docker Image enhancement and better CLI support.

[jorgecuesta]

Why?

A few Geo-Mesh users report to POKTscan about an issue with the new image after we adopt the one on the pokt-network/pocket-core repository on the latest RC.

They report that this image is using root as the user and is recommended to avoid that practice. There are a lot of blogs and documentation about this, here one of them from a well-known docker image user/company.

Also, we detected a few things that could be enhanced on both, entry point and docker context.

The problem with having a public image using root right now is that pocket binary generates folders and files that now belong to the root user, so they will need to modify those permissions to belong to the proper app user and group. To this, I added another optional entry point that could be used once to fix the permission issue and then start the container as before.

Here you can see how to use it with docker-compose or docker

Changes:

• Modifications to Dockerfile allow the container to run as app user instead of root.
• Added a new shell script named fix_permissions.sh to fix ownership issues related to running containers.
• Updated Dockerfile to use this new script.
• Added a .dockerignore file to help maintain a cleaner Docker build context, excluding unnecessary files.
• Modifications to entrypoint.sh allows the user to run all its internal commands with the proper --datadir param. Now properly handle the start command when --keybase=false is sent. Also, allow the user to pass the --datadir as an env variable to omit it on the start command.

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