Running as root on Docker images that don’t use root
tl;dr: specify the --user root argument:
docker exec --interactive \
--tty \
--user root \
--workdir / \
container-name bash
Robin Moffatt is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent, and an Oracle ACE Director (Alumnus). He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.