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rualca on Jan 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dockerfile Best Practices

> But the argument is, should it be a bad practice?

Are you really asking if running external-facing services as root should be considered a bad practice?

kitd on Jan 4, 2021 [–]

It's a container. The point of Docker is to contain and encapsulate. Lock down Docker.

Maybe not a bad practice, but it should be redundant.

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