is it possible to use `docker` volumes in development with host user permissions?

Question

docker looks like comfortable tool for sharing development environment.

But sharing host volumes has the important drawback. docker usually (always?) runs container under root user, and docker creates new files with root permissions, that is a problem.

So, how to avoid this problem?

• use custom Dockerfile, entrypoint for every user and run docker with -u flag?
• use rkt?

Answer 1

Docker is not typically used for this purpose. Rather, it's Vagrant that's convenient for sharing development environments. In fact, there's a sub-command expressly for this purpose.