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November 10, 2015

Docker ADD and COPY leave files owned by root by default

By trial and error I worked this out while building a container running Weblogic Portal 10.3.6 (see my Dockerfiles in the 10.3.6updates branch of my fork of oracle/docker: https://github.com/kevinhooke/weblogic-docker/tree/10.3.6updates). Even if you do a ‘USER oracle’ followed by a COPY or ADD, the files transferred into the image are still owned by root. This was …

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November 9, 2015

Docker and docker-machine usage notes

I’ve been playing on and off with Docker but not frequently enough to remember what I did last time, so here’s a few random unstructured notes (running on Mac OS X): docker ps : list running containers (this shows a container id which is used in most other commands) docker ps -a : show all …

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November 8, 2015

Setting a root password for a Docker image created with USER

If you have a Docker image created with a non-root user using USER in your Dockerfile, but you need to su to root to install or update something owned by root, without setting a root password you won’t be able to su to root. Instead, add a password for root in your Dockerfile (this is …

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November 8, 2015

Running Weblogic 10.3 config utils in console mode, and gui mode in a Docker container

Most of Weblogic’s config utilities can run in a console/text mode if you need to run them from a terminal session in text mode, by passing the option: -mode=console E.g. the apps here: /[middlewarehome]/wlserver_10.3/common/bin, like config.sh will run in console mode. config_builder.sh however does not, and only runs in gui mode. This is an issue if …

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