Run Fluentd Docker Image as Non Root

Question

This is the fluentd Docker image: https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docker-image

And below is the Dockerfile:

FROM fluent/fluentd:onbuild

USER root

# below RUN includes two plugins as examples
# elasticsearch and record-reformer are not required
# you may customize including plugins as you wish

RUN apk add --update --virtual .build-deps \
        sudo build-base ruby-dev \
 && sudo -u fluent gem install \
        fluent-plugin-elasticsearch \
        fluent-plugin-record-reformer \
 && sudo -u fluent gem sources --clear-all \
 && apk del .build-deps \
 && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/* \
           /home/fluent/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/cache/*.gem

USER fluent

EXPOSE 24284

After running this as docker image

docker exec -it b3c565091160 /bin/sh

cat /etc/passwd

fluent:x:1000:1000::/home/fluent:

And

/home/fluent # ps -ef
PID   USER     TIME   COMMAND
    1 root       0:00 {fluentd} /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/fluentd -c /fluentd/etc/fluent.conf -p /fluentd/plugins
    8 root       0:12 {fluentd} /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/fluentd -c /fluentd/etc/fluent.conf -p /fluentd/plugins
   22 root       0:00 /bin/sh
   28 root       0:00 ps -ef
/home/fluent # whoami
root

How can run this Fluentd as fluent user, specifically user 1000 instead of ROOT?

user_6682588 · Answer

You have to adapt it in entrypoint.sh fluentd has a binary starting command like every application in a container. Mostly is this application started from the entrypoint.sh

Here I don't see the entrypoint.sh or where the app fluentd is started? With the starting this app is setuped which id the app running with.

user_2032823 · Answer

At the end I built my own flunentd image with centos as base image

To run this:

docker run -v [pathOfDirectoryHaving fluent.conf]/:/etc/fluent/ -p 24224:24224 -d --name

DOCKERFILE

FROM centos:7


# Complete the core fluentd install:
# - Create a fluent user/group for this container to run as.
# - Install which RPM (required by RVM installer).
# - Load GPG key for RVM.
# - Install RVM.
# - Use RVM to install Ruby 2.4 and make it the default Ruby version.
# - Install Fluentd and Fluentd-Kafka gems.
# - Clean up the build-support RPMs installed by the RVM installer (by using yum history undo we also remove the dependent RPMs).
# - Run rvm cleanup to wipe out leftover Ruby source files.

RUN groupadd -g 1000 fluent && \
    useradd -g fluent -u 1000 -m fluent && \
    yum install -y which && \
    # https://rvm.io/rvm/security
    gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB && \
    curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable && \
    /bin/bash -c "source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh && \
                  rvm install 2.4 && \
                  rvm use 2.4 --default && \
                  gem install fluentd -v 1.6.3 --no-document && \
                  gem install fluent-plugin-kafka -v 0.7.9 --no-document && \
                  gem install fluent-plugin-record-modifier --no-document && \
                  gem install fluent-plugin-secure-forward --no-document && \
                  rvm cleanup all" && \
    mkdir /etc/fluent && \
    yum -y --setopt=tsflags=noscripts remove libffi-devel-* && \
    yum history -y undo last && \
    yum -y clean all && \
    #rpm --rebuilddb && \
    #package-cleanup --problems && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/yum/yumdb/*

# We expose port 24224 for the fluentd listener.
EXPOSE 24224

# Run fluentd as the fluent user (UID 1000). We must specify the user as a UID so that Kubernetes can determine
# that this container runs as a non-root user.
USER 1000

# Since we need to source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh to populate PATH and other variables before invoking fluentd, use
# a bash login shell that in turn invokes fluentd.

ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/bash", "-lc", "fluentd" ]

Run Fluentd Docker Image as Non Root

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