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| author | Ilya Mashchenko <ilya@netdata.cloud> | 2022-02-03 15:57:12 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-02-03 15:57:12 +0300 |
| commit | 8875acec2882ea02b932957c3618ef53b7c0da94 (patch) | |
| tree | 697cb287d2d24681c2e125558e6fce5161445c79 | |
| parent | b5d65d1305f687e0aa9433cca3a7a6e0afcdd725 (diff) | |
docs: improve "Docker container names resolution" section (#12079)
| -rw-r--r-- | packaging/docker/README.md | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/docker/README.md b/packaging/docker/README.md index 0a4804ae98..e00391bb6a 100644 --- a/packaging/docker/README.md +++ b/packaging/docker/README.md @@ -321,12 +321,25 @@ services: #### Giving group access to the Docker socket (less safe) -**Important Note**: You should seriously consider the necessity of activating this option, as it grants to the `netdata` +> You should seriously consider the necessity of activating this option, as it grants to the `netdata` user access to the privileged socket connection of docker service and therefore your whole machine. If you want to have your container names resolved by Netdata, make the `netdata` user be part of the group that owns the socket. +```yaml +version: '3' +services: + netdata: + image: netdata/netdata + # ... rest of your config ... + volumes: + # ... other volumes ... + - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro + environment: + - PGID=[GROUP NUMBER] +``` + To achieve that just add environment variable `PGID=[GROUP NUMBER]` to the Netdata container, where `[GROUP NUMBER]` is practically the group id of the group assigned to the docker socket, on your host. |