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Support starting agent containers in privileged mode

Open varshavaradarajan opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

This will help in using a docker in docker image to run docker related tasks using elastic agents.

varshavaradarajan avatar Apr 17 '18 09:04 varshavaradarajan

@varshavaradarajan It seems that starting docker service in privilege mode is not yet supported in docker swarm due to security and implementation complexities involved. Here is the open issue in docker github for supporting privilege mode for docker swarm https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/issues/1030

https://forums.docker.com/t/privileged-containers/36935

akshaymayekar avatar Apr 23 '18 10:04 akshaymayekar

While it's not the full --privileged mode, you can add SYS_ADMIN capabilities to containers since Docker API v1.41

riebecj avatar Apr 10 '25 22:04 riebecj