alpine docker image doesn't run entrypoint as root

Set USER directrive in the Dockerfile to the consul-template user
created to run consul-template. Also make the UID/GID used for the
consul-template user and group explicit and overrideable. The values
used, if not overridden, are the same as the default values adduser and
addgroup would have used (so no change to actual values).

Made this change as some organizations security policies require it. The
only reason it wasn't done this way before was to run a chown on the
(possibly) bind mounted directories and this is a bad practice anyways
(who knows who the user matches on the external system).

Only change the alpine image this way as the other 2 (scratch and light)
purposely do as little as possible so they don't even create the user.

Fixes #1321

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+## v0.24.0 (Dec NN, 2019)
+
+BREAKING CHANGES:
+
+* Alpine Docker image no longer runs as root and so doesn't change ownership of the /consul-template/data and /consul-template/config directories to the consul-template user.
+
+
 ## v0.23.0 (Nov 13, 2019)
 
 IMPROVEMENTS:

README.md

@@ -2174,6 +2174,21 @@ func main() {
 
 ## Caveats
 
+### Docker Image Use
+
+The Alpine Docker image is configured to support an external volume to render
+shared templates to. If mounted you will need to make sure that the
+consul-template user in the docker image has write permissions to the
+directory.
+
+**The consul-template user in docker has a UID of 100 and a GID of 1000.**
+
+Previously the image initially ran as root in order to ensure the permissions
+allowed it. But this ran against docker best practices and security policies.
+
+If you build your own image based on ours you can override these values with
+`--build-arg` parameters.
+
 ### Dots in Service Names
 
 Using dots `.` in service names will conflict with the use of dots for [TAG

docker/alpine/Dockerfile

@@ -22,17 +22,23 @@ RUN \
 FROM alpine:latest
 LABEL maintainer "John Eikenberry <jae@zhar.net>"
 
-# This is the release of https://github.com/hashicorp/docker-base to pull in order
-# to provide HashiCorp-built versions of basic utilities like dumb-init and gosu.
+# This is the release of https://github.com/hashicorp/docker-base to pull in
+# order to provide HashiCorp-built versions of basic utilities like dumb-init
+# and gosu.
 ARG DOCKER_BASE_VERSION="0.0.4"
 
 # This is the location of the releases.
 ARG HASHICORP_RELEASES="https://releases.hashicorp.com"
 
+# UID and GID of consul-template user and group.
+# These are the defaults, this makes them explicit and overridable.
+ARG UID=100
+ARG GID=1000
+
 # Create a consul-template user and group first so the IDs get set the same way,
 # even as the rest of this may change over time.
-RUN addgroup consul-template && \
-    adduser -S -G consul-template consul-template
+RUN addgroup -g ${GID} consul-template && \
+    adduser -u ${UID} -S -G consul-template consul-template
 
 # Set up certificates, our base tools, and Consul Template (CT).
 RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates curl gnupg libcap openssl && \
@@ -46,7 +52,7 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates curl gnupg libcap openssl && \
     gpg --batch --verify docker-base_${DOCKER_BASE_VERSION}_SHA256SUMS.sig docker-base_${DOCKER_BASE_VERSION}_SHA256SUMS && \
     grep ${DOCKER_BASE_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip docker-base_${DOCKER_BASE_VERSION}_SHA256SUMS | sha256sum -c && \
     unzip docker-base_${DOCKER_BASE_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip && \
-    cp bin/gosu bin/dumb-init /bin && \
+    cp bin/dumb-init /bin && \
     cd /tmp && \
     rm -rf /tmp/build && \
     apk del gnupg openssl && \
@@ -55,8 +61,8 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates curl gnupg libcap openssl && \
 # Install consul-template
 COPY --from=builder "/consul-template" "/bin/consul-template"
 
-# The agent will be started with /consul-template/config as the configuration directory
-# so you can add additional config files in that location.
+# The agent will be started with /consul-template/config as the configuration
+# directory so you can add additional config files in that location.
 RUN mkdir -p /consul-template/data && \
     mkdir -p /consul-template/config && \
     chown -R consul-template:consul-template /consul-template
@@ -70,6 +76,7 @@ VOLUME /consul-template/data
 COPY "docker/alpine/docker-entrypoint.sh" "/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh"
 RUN chmod +x "/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh"
 ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh"]
+USER consul-template:consul-template
 
 # Run consul-template by default
 CMD ["/bin/consul-template"]

docker/alpine/docker-entrypoint.sh

@@ -6,37 +6,25 @@ set -e
 # wouldn't do either of these functions so we'd leak zombies as well as do
 # unclean termination of all our sub-processes.
 
-# CONSUL_DATA_DIR is exposed as a volume for possible persistent storage.
 # CT_CONFIG_DIR isn't exposed as a volume but you can compose additional config
 # files in there if you use this image as a base, or use CT_LOCAL_CONFIG below.
-CT_DATA_DIR=/consul-template/config
 CT_CONFIG_DIR=/consul-template/config
 
-# If the user is trying to run consul-template directly with some arguments, then
-# pass them to consul-template.
-if [ "${1:0:1}" = '-' ]; then
-  set -- /bin/consul-template "$@"
+# If the user is trying to run consul-template directly with some arguments,
+# then pass them to consul-template.
+# On alpine /bin/sh is busybox which supports the bashism below.
+if [ "${1:0:1}" = '-' ]
+then
+    set -- /bin/consul-template "$@"
 fi
 
-# If we are running Consul, make sure it executes as the proper user.
-if [ "$1" = '/bin/consul-template' ]; then
-  # If the data or config dirs are bind mounted then chown them.
-  # Note: This checks for root ownership as that's the most common case.
-  if [ "$(stat -c %u /consul-template/data)" != "$(id -u consul-template)" ]; then
-    chown consul-template:consul-template /consul-template/data
-  fi
-  if [ "$(stat -c %u /consul-template/config)" != "$(id -u consul-template)" ]; then
-    chown consul-template:consul-template /consul-template/config
-  fi
-
-  # Set the configuration directory
+# Set the configuration directory
+if [ "$1" = '/bin/consul-template' ]
+then
   shift
   set -- /bin/consul-template \
     -config="$CT_CONFIG_DIR" \
     "$@"
-
-  # Run under the right user
-  set -- gosu consul-template "$@"
 fi
 
 exec "$@"