Permission denied error while running influx arm64 docker image as a container

Question

I'm running influx arm64 arm64v8/influxdb docker image as a container but facing following permission denied issue. Can some one please help with this issue? Thank you in advance.

admin@ynm583:~/***/***/***fa$ docker logs 0b3
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/influxdb2/engine': Permission denied

Answer 1

This might be a user-privilege issue: Make sure user admin is allowed to execute docker commands. This can be done via the command sudo usermod -a -G docker $(whoami) (you might need restart your terminal session/system for this to take effect).

Alternatively, you could run your docker ( -compose ) commands with sudo (this is discouraged though).

Answer 2

I have clashed with this problem when trying to run influxdb in OpenShift. The problem was in OpenShift work: it runs containers as a non-root user. See this and this