Containers

Explain Rootless Containers

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Historically, user needed root privileges to run containers. One of the most basic security recommendations is to provide users with minimum privileges for what they need.

For containers it's been the situation for a long time and still for running some containers today from docker.io, you'll need to have root privileges.