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I find it's a bit annoying that almost all their images assume root access by default. Their init script does a bunch of things as root and only switch to a non-root user at the very last step before starting the main process if some magic environment variable is discovered. If your infra does not allow root users in containers you can't use their images.

It's also too much magic for my liking. Some software distributed as a single executable binary gets packaged in some over complicated base image on top of another base image, when I can technically just copy the binary into a scratch and call it a day. I understand the benefits when they have to manage tons of images at scale, but my life has been much easier with images packaged by myself or the upstream projects.



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