Luther Monson, Staff Software Engineer at SUSE

Luther Monson

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Docker-in-Docker in CI Without Handing Jobs Root

ephemerd runs Docker-in-Docker for container: jobs without a privileged container. Here is what a job could still reach, and the four PRs that closed each hole.

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Four dind sandbox cracks and the ephemerd PR that closed each one

ephemerd runs a fresh GitHub Actions runner per job. Some of those jobs need Docker. A workflow builds an image, runs a service container, or uses the container: key. The usual way to give a self-hosted job Docker is Docker-in-Docker, or dind.

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Luther is a 20+ year software veteran specializing in backend APIs and architecting products. Employed at SUSE as the Team Lead for the Containers on Windows Team working on Rancher + Kubernetes