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How to run rootless containers

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STIX ID: report--d1837a81-d9ae-5e4e-9c84-ff6a086816c2

Feed Name: Sysdig Blog

Date Published: 2026-02-10

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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This article describes why running containers as root is risky and provides practical guidance to prepare images and runtimes for rootless/unprivileged operation—covering port and file-permission changes, example modifications for nginx, use of capabilities, user namespaces, read-only containers, and multi-stage builds to harden container deployments.

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