Ability To Run Privileged Containers When Using The Docker Executor | Feature Requests

Ability To Run Privileged Containers When Using The Docker Executor

Qgan

Currently you can only run a privileged container using a machine executor. It would be useful to be able to run a privileged container using docker.

Created by Henna Abbas

Manuel Pöter

That would be very helpful for us as well! We have already identified two scenarios in which we are limited by the current docker containers.

It is not possible to attach a debugger like gdb to a process inside the container. This is important for us, not only to be able to interactively debug test issues via SSH, but also because our test scripts try to gather as much information as possible (including stack traces) in case of an unexpected error.
We have a lot of tests where we start a cluster with multiple processes inside the same container, and for some of those tests we want to capture all the network traffic between those processes to aid with post mortem debugging.