I’m trying to deploy an dockerised app on Ubuntu and I have:
- created a
/var/wwwdirectory - made this directory 777
- set the ownership to my
deployeruser - cloned my repo into
/var/www/my-repo
When I run docker compose up --build I get file permission issue when copying the contents of my app directory to container. If I change the permissions in /var/www/my-repo to 777 I don’t get the error.
I don’t understand why. I've used my deployer user to clone the repo and it is part of the docker group, owns the /my-repo directory which is inside a publicly accessible directory. My questions are:
- How can I fix this so I can run docker compose up -d without having to change the ownership of the repo?
- Is changing the /var/www to publicly accessible a good idea?
I’m open to different setup suggestions.
PS: I'm also looking into using kubernets but it may be the next step
