Bind mount folder in docker compose without having to change folder or file permissions

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Bind mount folder in docker compose without having to change folder or file permissions

• check user and group of host user: https://kb.iu.edu/d/adwf

  id -u <username>
  id -g <username>
  # (most times both 1000)
  # show all just used id command
  id

• info for setting user in docker compose: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56904335/5628238

  • set id in service of docker-compose.yml

    services:
      php: # this is my service name
        user: "${UID}:${GID}" # we added this line to get a specific user / group id
        image: php:7.3-fpm-alpine # this is my image
        # and so on

  • set id in .env file next to docker-compose.yml

    UID=1000
    GID=1000