Hello, we have a ubuntu 18.04 host on which we are running docker container. We want the container to have root privilege on the host so we are running the container with privileged option. Now if I want to run a bash script on the host from the container how do i do it? let’s say the bash script wi…

Docker privileged containers

abhilashcachar (abhilashcachar) August 20, 2021, 9:52am 3

Thanks @terpz , to give you the full context we are using IoT Edge containers. So running docker run command is not really in our control but we can use container create options if we want to. (ref: Docker Engine API v1.30 Reference). This is how we pass the --privileged option.

Is there any way that once the container is created, we can run commands from within the container?

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