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Kishore Kumar
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The Dockerfile Disaster: How a Non-Root User Broke Our Production App!

We all know running containers as root is risky. So, like a responsible DevOps engineer, I switched my Docker container to a non-root user. Everything seemed fine… until my app failed to csv export failed in our production

What went wrong? πŸ€”

  • The app lost write permissions to a directory.
  • The container crashed due to EACCES (permission denied) errors.
  • A small security tweak caused an unexpected production issue.

I spent hours debugging before finally solving it. Want to know the fix? πŸ”₯

πŸ‘‰ Read the full story and solution here:
πŸ”— The Dockerfile Disaster – How a Non-Root User Broke My App’s File Exports

Have you ever faced permission issues in Docker containers? Let’s discuss in the comments! πŸ‘‡

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