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?

Mar 25, 2025 - 04:46
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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?